With a solemn Holy Mass and gift-giving, family and friends remembered film icon Susan Roces on the second year of her death. Senator Grace Poe, daughter Nika, and some relatives from the Sonora clan attended an early morning mass at the Sanctuario De San Jose in San Juan City before proceeding to the family mausoleum […]
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With only 30 World War II veterans attending this year’s Leyte Gulf Landings commemoration, the provincial government is working on preserving their stories as a tourism asset. Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla said that from 97 surviving veterans in 2021, there are only 30 of them still alive. “They are disappearing very fast.” “They are […]
Residents in areas ravaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013 commemorated on Monday the 8th anniversary of the killer storm, remembering the thousands of people who perished. In Tacloban City, considered as Yolanda’s ground zero, a Holy Mass was held at the mass burial site inside the Holy Cross Memorial Park in Basper village. The […]