The Philippines' powerful Roman Catholic Church hierarchy told priests and nuns Friday to avoid direct political involvement in elections.
The government announced Thursday a slight upturn in the economy in 1986, the first gain since the 1983 murder of President Corazon Aquino's husband sent the nation into the worst economic crisis since World War II.
A committee of 10 Roman Catholic and Protestant representatives accused the military on Friday of increasingly harassing church operations and of persistent human rights abuses in the southern Philippines.
Communist guerrillas waging a sabotage campaign against the Philippines' first nuclear power plant have blown up two power-line pylons, bringing to 26 the number of transmission towers damaged in two weeks, officials said Wednesday.
The Philippine National Assembly approved a bill that calls for early presidential elections Feb. 7
The Supreme Court today barred a lower court from handing down a verdict in the Benigno S.
The bill authorizing special presidential elections Feb. 7 went to the floor of the Philippine
At least 34 Communist rebels and two militiamen were killed and scores wounded Saturday in a gun battle in the southern Philippines, the military said.
A Philippine court has ordered the government to seize the sugar plantation owned by the family of
Still beset with doubts about the fairness of presidential elections in the Philippines next month, Sen.
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee voted unanimously Thursday to suspend military aid to the Philippines and redirect economic aid to private groups until President Ferdinand E.
Dozens of chanting marchers gathered outside the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles on Monday to
It is a bit disorienting still to find after three days of carnival rebellion that the order of things here, for 20 years dictatorially designated and defined, has been suddenly reversed.
For 20 years, Remedio Tolentino and her family have lived in a ramshackle hut of scrap wood and tin in a squatters' colony on the fringes of Manila.
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Dennis Rinde led almost all the way in winning the Philippine Airlines Manila marathon with a time of 2 hours 23 minutes 8.69 seconds.