It was a typical Sunday afternoon in Pagadian City a center for agricultural traders and large predominantly Christian community on Mindanao island. Like most Catholic Priests Father Michael Sinnott, was resting after saying mass, another lazy Sunday afternoon in the home of the Columban missionary fathers a little television, a book, and off to bed […]
Philippine Storm damage lingers 41 towns flooded still Loan defaults feared by retailers
In the Northern Philippines 38 towns and three cities – in the Ilocos Region remain flooded as of Sunday night, Philippine the National Disaster Coordinating Council or NDCC reports. Most of the areas three million residents are without power as medical and food supplies are limited. The scale of the disaster which government’s initial damage […]
Hundreds dead, thousands threatened as US troops help in Philippines disaster
About 2000 US troops are helping in relief operation in the Philippines trying to get supplies to mountain cities cut of from aid by over 40 landslides. Around 700 marines from the 31st MEU (marine expeditionary force) in Okinawa aboard the landing ships USS Harpers Ferry and two others continue to aid in the delivery […]
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