At least 22 Filipinos were rescued, including two injured, while one was reported to be taken hostage and seven others remained unaccounted for amid retaliatory attacks launched by Israel against Hamas militants. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported the figures on Monday, Oct....
The deadly war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants did not stop Filipinos working as caregivers in Israel from serving and attending to their patients. "Life must go on" for Lourdes Levi, who like other Filipino caregivers in Israel, is making heroic sacrifices to go to work...
The Philippine government is checking on the situation of all Filipinos abroad every time a conflict in ​a host country breaks out. But how do they really do this? According to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega, the government does not go house-to-house...
Globe is offering free roaming call, text, and data services to Filipinos in Israel amid the ongoing violent conflict and militant attacks in the area. “Globe is immediately providing connectivity support to Filipinos in Israel as conflict grips the Middle Eastern nation, where thousands of our...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Tuesday, November 7 called on authorities to investigate the reported recruitment scam victimizing Filipino job seekers in Italy. Go made the call after the Philippine consulate in Milan and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) intervened to...
​The family of one of the Filipinos killed during Hamas' attack on Israel will be receiving continuing assistance from the Israeli government, the Israeli Embassy in Manila said Monday, Nov. 6. This was announced as Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss and Consul Moti Cohen...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has assured the family of slain overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Loreta Alacre that they will receive all the necessary assistance pursuant to the mandate of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. DMW Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac (left) and Mayor...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Monday, November 6 called on the government to expedite its repatriation program for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as violence escalates in Gaza amid the ongoing confict between Israel and the Hamas group. Go, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health...
BACOLOD CITY – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) killed in the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel was laid to rest in a public cemetery in Barangay Caduha-an, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, November 5. A Mass was offered to Loreta “Daday” V. Alacre at the Saint Peregrine Parish in...
BINMALEY, Pangasinan (PNA) – The bereaved family of Angelyn Aguirre, the 32-year-old overseas Filipino worker who was killed while protecting her elderly ward during the Hamas attack in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel on October 7, will receive financial assistance from the governments of the...
House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Facebook, BBM Media Bureau) After Malacañang named a full-time Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary, House Minority Leader and 4Ps...
A Filipina caregiver in Israel thought it was already her time when Hamas launched a surprise attack on the Jewish state early October, but her instinct to just surrender to the militants' demands saved her from getting killed. Camille Jesalva, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW), was spending her...
