The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday advised consumers who purchased popular chocolate KitKat chunky peanut butter flavored bars (48g size) to call its manufacturer, Nestlé, which earlier announced a recall of the product.
Each year, the Binibining Pilipinas pageant aims to search for the finest women to represent the country in the best international pageants.
Emman Sta. Maria (not his real name), an occupational therapist with a graduate degree in Special Education, asked a number of questions about my religious beliefs and other personal things which have also been asked of me in the past.
This means spending and devoting a special time for the most important person ever “born to you”—and that’s yourself.
In the coastal town of Calauag, Quezon—roughly a six-hour drive south of Manila—at the St. Peter the Apostle parish church, you will find a huge mural (81 x 43 ft) that dramatizes highlights in the turbulent life of the first Pontiff.
Five hours north of Manila lies the province of Pangasinan. Known for its delicious food—mangoes, boneless bangus and Calasiao puto—awe-inspiring beaches, marine parks and the Hundred Islands, Pangasinan is definitely a treasure trove for the senses. Most importantly, for the faithful Catholics, Pangasinan is also home to Our Lady of Manaoag.
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) wowed Manila’s music lovers at two recent special concerts: “Elegantly Brahms” and “Nostalgic Concerts.”
Beginning with the title, the book is immediately eye-catching and unusual. “Startle: Gathering Light from the Word of God” by José Ramon “Fr. Jett” T. Villarin, SJ (Jesuit Communications Foundation, Inc., Quezon City, 2012, 199 pages), gathers Villarin’s written reflections on the Sunday Gospel and, in a fine sampling of the book’s language and logic, explains itself.
“Dyip! Dyip! Dyip!” marks Dayong’s comeback after 14 years of absence from the art scene. His last exhibition, “Ugat,” was sold out in 1999 at the SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City. His first, “Basketbol Siris” in 1996, was also sold out at Shangri-La Makati. While “Basketbol Siris” was about Philippine basketball and “Ugat” touched on rural life in his father’s bucolic hometown in Pangasinan, “Dyip! Dyip! Dyip!” is Dayong’s bold attempt at depicting the quaint qualities of the nation’s No. 1 mode of transportation.
Pope Francis, celebrating his first Palm Sunday in Vatican City as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, called for personal conversion to check greed and social iniquity “that hit the weakest” and the poor.
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