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St. Patrick’s Cathedral to hold 1st Santacruzan on May 24th
The Filipino Catholic Apostolate of New York (FILCA) will commemorate the 100th Canonical Coronation Anniversary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag with a solemn Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday, May 24, 2026. This will be preceded by a Santacruzan procession. This centennial celebrates Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag, one […]
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Autumn Durald Arkapaw: First woman, 1st black and 1st Filipino Creole to win an Oscar for Cinematography
By LMarilyn Crawford She is of Filipino descent through her mother, Peggy Bautista, who hails from Pampanga, Philippines. Her maternal grandfather, Guillermo Pagan Bautista, was a resistance fighter during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Autumn Durald Arkapaw considers him “the most important man in my life” and has […]
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Veterans families troop to New Mexico missile range in remembrance of Bataan Death March
By Jon Melegrito On March 21, 2026, families of Filipino veterans and supporters from the community joined about 5,000 participants to honor Filipino and American soldiers who endured Bataan Death March 84 years ago. They traveled from various locations across the United States ending up at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to […]
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Macario Fojas: Building Seven Seven and championing Filipino talent
By Cristina DC Pastor Life was anything but easy for Macario Fojas, president and co-founder of Seven Seven Global Services, Inc., a Filipino-owned IT company based in New Jersey. In 1982, he was enrolled at Fordham University, pursuing a master’s degree in Finance and Quantitative Methods. By day, he worked as an encoder in New […]
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Filipino couple among those charged in hospice care fraud allegedly taking money from patients who were not dying
Nita Almuete Paddit Palma, 76, a thrice-convicted health care fraudster now incarcerated at a federal prison in Seattle, and her husband, Adolfo Catbagan, 68, of Glendale, are charged in an 11-count indictment with operating at least three fraudulent hospice care facilities, according to an April 2 press release from the U.S. Department of Justice Central District of […]
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Cinelle Barnes’s memoir pieces together her past as she recovers from brain trauma
“A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself and the Beauty of Returning” by Cinelle Barnes is a heart-wrenching memoir about remembering and rebuilding a life after everything known disappears in a flash. In 2023, Barnes is writing a travelogue about journeying home to the Philippines after a 20-year separation when she suffers a traumatic […]
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How the J-1 Visa became Revitche Eredia’s gateway to teaching
For many, the American Dream feels distant—something glimpsed only in stories or imagined through one’s aspirations. For Cebuana Revitche Eredia, it began with a single, uncertain step: applying for a J-1 Teacher Exchange Program Visa. In 2021, she took a chance and applied through a virtual international recruitment program. She called it her leap of […]
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Artist Adonis DeKing takes on AAPI leadership role in Boston
By Gretheline Bolandrina Milford, MA — Artist and community advocate Adonis DeKing is stepping into a prominent new leadership position aimed at strengthening and uplifting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) professionals across the region. DeKing has been named associate director of Leadership Excellence at the National Association of Asian American Professionals – Boston Chapter, […]
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The Trader Joe’s tote obsession: no judgement, please
By Cristina DC Pastor Trader Joe’s—or as some Pinoys call it, “Traders Joe”—tote bags are now the hottest commodity since…what? Ube Pandesal? Please. Nobody ever woke up at 4 a.m. for Ube Pandesal. Nobody formed a human chain of a line around the block clutching grocery bags. And absolutely nobody tried to auction off a […]