(Speech delivered ny Jose Torres, Director General of the Philippine Information Agency, at the Bangsamoro Information and Media Summit held at SMX Convention Center in Davao City on 19 October 2023) Today, I am tasked to speak on an issue that
Fish vendors in Dapitan City display fresh deep sea crabs or curacha from the island of Silinog, between the island of Mindanao and the province of Negros, early Sunday morning, July 24, 2016. A kilo of curacha costs 200 pesos.
MANILA (ucanews.com/11 November) — Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has called on the Philippine government to withdraw troops from tribal communities after thousands of indigenous people in the southern region of Mindanao fled their homes because of alleged atrocities
Joe Torres / ucanews.com TACLOBAN CITY (ucanews.com/17 January) –Pope Francis on Saturday braved a tropical storm and bumpy plane ride from Manila to Tacloban to meet with Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) survivors and victims of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Bohol
It’s a sea of yellow in Tacloban as thousands of pilgrims in yellow raincoats gathered Saturday morning, January to attend the mass celebrated by Pope Francis. The Pope said he knew as soon as he saw the footages on the destruction
MANILA (ucanews.com/16 January) — Pope Francis on Friday warned against what he labeled “threats to the family” including materialism, culture of the ephemeral and a lack of openness to life. The pontiff made the statement before some 16,000 Filipinos who
(ON BOARD THE PAPAL PLANE TO SRI LANKA / 13 Jan2015) –“I thank you for your company in this trip, and I wish you a good trip,” the Pope told us with a smile. But he warned with a chuckle,
SPECIAL TO MINDANEWS VATICAN (MindaNews/11 January) — Who would have thought that I would be able to see the Vatican, the seat of the institution that is the Catholic Church. Who would have thought that I, who grew up in
