HUNGER. A Filipino couple try to feed their children as they share a bowl of rice at a roadside in an urban poor district of Quezon City, east of Manila. File photo by Rolex dela Pena/EPA
MANILA, Philippines (Nov. 3, 2015) — More than 3 million families are estimated to have suffered from involuntary hunger during the 3rd quarter of 2015, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey reported.
October 12, 2015 — A CATHOLIC bishop on Sunday issued a strongly worded apostolic message condemning the killings of lumad leaders in Surigao del Sur and demanding that the government immediately disband the paramilitary groups in the province.
MANILA, Philippines (Aug. 20, 2015) — Soldiers clashed with Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremists on two islands in the southern Philippines leaving 20 of the rebels dead even as fighting continued to rage, according to the military.