MANILA (Reuters) – From across the Philippines, they gathered to pray by Zoom. They were praying to be allowed to leave: To be allowed to take up nursing jobs in countries where the coronavirus is ...

Though the face of the United Farm Workers was typically César Chávez, it was the Filipino Americans who initiated the Delano grape strike in 1965 that led to Chávez”s prominence in a social movement ...

A new U.S. Navy ship is set to bear the name USS Telesforo Trinidad in honor of a Filipino sailor who rescued two crew members in the 1900s. Fireman Telesforo De La Cruz Trinidad, who died in 1968 at ...

MANILA, Philippines (RNS/ENInews) Filipino church leaders are divided over a proposal to give the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos a hero’s burial. In late March, a resolution was endorsed by 193 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A reward is being offered after the bust of a Filipino National hero was stolen from a community center on Chicago's North Side. The bust is that of Dr. Jose Rizal was a poet, ...

In the Philippines, this concept haunts classrooms and audiences like a specter whenever there is a celebration of the anniversary of some hero’s birth or death. It hangs in the air over the heads of ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine vice president has recommended that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos should not be buried at Manila's heroes' cemetery but that full military honors could be ...

"I will," Nick Giongco said, "be weeping as I type my story." This, a journalist once sued by Manny Pacquiao for libel. Eva Peron stood on a balcony and told Argentina through song not to cry for her.