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After the earthquake and tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan in March 2011, the country didn’t just want to reconstruct; it wanted to improve.
The New Zealand Embassy, in cooperation with Unicef, is bringing to Manila the photography exhibition “Christchurch: See Through My Eyes.”
The earthquake that struck the central Philippines and killed at least 144 people also dealt a serious blow to the region's historical and religious legacy by heavily damaging a dozen or more churches, some of them hundreds of years old.
It doesn’t matter which part of the country (or even the world) you’re in—there are ways to help. Schools, government agencies and nonprofit organizations are all collecting relief for the victims of the earthquake that hit Bohol, Cebu and other parts of Visayas. Here are some.
In a matter of minutes, Bohol and Cebu churches collapsed into piles of rubble.
When Libera, the chart-topping boys’ choir from London, holds its third Philippine concert next week, it will perform in Cebu, which is struggling to rise from the shock of a powerful earthquake that killed and maimed scores of people, and also toppled the belfry of the centuries-old shrine of Santo Niño, the biggest Catholic devotion in the Philippines.
If worse comes to worst, the Church of San Pedro Apostol in Loboc, Bohol, heavily damaged by last Tuesday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake, can no longer be rebuilt and rehabilitated and will be left as it is, the ruins of a once-magnificent structure whose more than a quarter-of-a-century of existence has been cut short by the wrath of nature.
