Pam Castro

3 days ago | ibtimes.com.au | Cecil Morella |Pam Castro |Faith Brown

Millions of Filipinos braved long lines and soaring temperatures Monday to vote in a mid-term election largely defined by the explosive feud between President Ferdinand Marcos and impeached Vice President Sara Duterte. With temperatures hitting 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) in some places, George Garcia, head of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), said some voting machines were "overheating".

3 days ago | japantoday.com | Cecil Morella |Pam Castro

Millions of Filipinos headed to the polls Monday in a mid-term election widely seen as a referendum on the explosive feud between President Ferdinand Marcos and impeached Vice President Sara Duterte. Long lines were already forming at polling stations across the capital Manila before voting officially began at 7 a.m., AFP journalists saw. The race will decide more than 18,000 posts, from seats in the House of Representatives to hotly contested municipal offices.

3 days ago | barrons.com | Cecil Morella |Pam Castro

Millions of Filipinos headed to the polls Monday in a mid-term election widely seen as a referendum on the explosive feud between President Ferdinand Marcos and impeached Vice President Sara Duterte. Polls across the archipelago nation opened at 7 am (2300 GMT Sunday) in a race that will decide more than 18,000 posts, from seats in the House of Representatives to hotly contested municipal offices.

6 days ago | barrons.com | Cecil Morella |Pam Castro |Chad Williams

The Philippines votes Monday in a ballot that will decide half the Senate's seats, thousands of local posts, and quite possibly the political future of impeached Vice President Sara Duterte. More than 160,000 national police have been deployed to secure polling stations, escort election officials and guard checkpoints in a country where hotly contested provincial postings are known to erupt in violence.

1 week ago | opovo.com.br | Pam Castro

Um cardeal filipino está entre os favoritos para suceder Francisco como o novo papa, já que a Igreja no país mais católico da Ásia enfrenta um declínio nas vocações sacerdotais. "De acordo com as estatísticas que temos (...), cada padre atende cerca de 9.000 católicos", disse John Alfred Rabena, reitor do Seminário Central da Universidade de Santo Tomás, o mais antigo das Filipinas, esta semana. É + que streaming. É arte, cultura e história.