Painting of José Rizal being executed by a squad of Filipino soldiers of the Spanish Army. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Photo by Jorge Láscar) At 7 am on December 30, 1896, a 35-year-old ...

Editor’s note: Originally published March 2025, this story is being resurfaced to highlight the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution and the Bay Area Filipino community’s ...

"We offered food and prayed the rosary to the soldiers who had been deployed to disperse us. We sang Bayan Ko ['Our Fatherland,' a protest song] and slept on the streets,” Villegas added. The prelate ...

A chronicle of the three points of a political triangle — the legal left, the illegal (armed) revolution, and the enemy which threatens them both: the armed reactionary right. It is 1987. The ...

Catholic priests and nuns in the Philippines are leading protests in the run-up to the 32nd anniversary of the peaceful revolution that restored democracy in 1986. Farmers and fishermen joined several ...