BEFORE all the loud music, vibrant colors, and festive atmosphere, early Sinulog celebrations featured rituals rooted in precolonial babaylan prayers and war da ...

An estimated crowd of three to four million are expected to fill the streets of Cebu City, vibrating with the drumbeats and ...

An estimated crowd of three to four million filled the streets of Cebu City yesterday, vibrating with the drumbeats and ...

EVERY Jan. 9, as dawn cracks over Manila’s smog-choked skyline, a human tsunami engulfs Quiapo. From midnight onward, streets ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — From processions to masses, Fiesta Señor events transforms Cebu into an landscape of living faith each January. Devotees take to the streets and seas to honor the Santo Niño ...

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More than 100 priests, led by the Augustinian friars who administer the basilica, concelebrated the pontifical Mass with Cebu ...

Elenita Paran (left) and April Me Booc (right), members of the Basilica United Vendors and Photographers Association. (PIA7) ...

For many, the Sinulog festival is a time to reignite old traditions and for the next generation to create new ones of their own ...

The organizer of the 2026 Dinagyang Festival is inviting spectators to stay until the end of the performances during the ...

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Only US$11.85 billion has so far been pledged for 2026-2028 of an urgently needed US$18 billion. All but one of the 10 leading donors reduced their pledges.“People will die because of ...