Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey: 65 percent of adult Filipinos expect a happy Christmas, down from 73 percent in ...
Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...
I write this year-end column with the cadence of the soft drizzle of rain, and while the world outside is going crazy because ...
What does it taste like? I asked my Tito one sunny morning as I watched him sip from a small cup of steaming black liquid. He was sitting on the wooden bench in our kitchen, quietly enjoying the ...
Mary Jane Veloso’s return to the Philippines after 14 years of imprisonment in Indonesia is a historic occasion for many Filipinos. As a society that embraces “kapwa”—a core value reflecting a sense ...
My “noche buena” memories are largely sensory: chatter and laughter from uncles, aunts, and 50 first cousins; piping-hot nilaga made hearty by jiggling pork belly fat; gifts wrapped and ribboned; ...