MANILA, Philippines - The BRP Rajah Humabon (PF–11) is the Philippine Navy’s flagship and its 60 crew members believe they are the strongest expression of Philippine sovereignty even as they ...

Today, April 8, or 505 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan landed in Cebu, where he met Hari’ Humabon, and forged an alliance marking the first sustained Spanish contact with a Philippine polity. This led ...

A historic wooden bust of the suffering Jesus Christ is coming home to Cebu. The Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) decided to return the four century-old image to the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy will no longer turn BRP Rajah Humabon, which was decommissioned in 2018, into a museum. Humabon was found partly submerged, along with World War II-era ...

The authorities have awarded the archbishop the highest civil honour. Among the reasons given were his exemplary contribution to the city and for having made gestures with a high social impact on its ...

The BRP Rajah Humabon is a 75-year-old Cannon-class destroyer of the US Navy acquired by the Philippines in 1976 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Navy this week said goodbye to one of the world’s ...

While history is mainly built on narratives from verified facts, we should also be sensitive to its silences. For example, our focus on the Victory at Mactan on April 27 obscures the Massacre in Cebu ...

The Philippine Navy’s oldest warship BRP Rajah Humabon (PS-11), which rendered almost four decades of service, was decommissioned on Thursday at a naval base in Sangley Point, Cavite. The former ...

It is understandable that the commemoration of the first world circumnavigation in the Philippines has, as highlight, the exploit of Lapu-Lapu, the local David who defeated an almighty Goliath ...

WHEN I first visited Cebu City in 2014, I went to see this monument that I used to show students in my PowerPoint presentations. Not too many people visit him, unlike Lapulapu’s monument at the ...

Cebu (AsiaNews) - A Filipino prelate has received the highest civil honour from the leaders of the city of Cebu, a metropolis in the Central Visayas region, for his tireless service to society in all ...