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Reliving the Battle of Britain aboard a Spitfire aircraft
By Wendell Gaa The year 2025 marks the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, one of the most pivotal air battles not only during the Second World War, but in the history of Western civilization. It was in this military conflict when Nazi Germany under its dictator Adolf Hitler had by 1940 overrun much […]
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September 11: A couple’s story of survival and purpose
September 11th remains a deeply painful and unforgettable day for life partners Jerry Sibal and Edwin Josue. Twenty-four years after the World Trade Center attacks, they are “grateful that God spared our lives,” and that what they have now is “our second chance.” Weeks before that fateful day, Jerry’s client, Verizon, hired his company to […]
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43 years ago the Philippine Center performs its first-ever FilAm matrimony
By Cristina DC Pastor Darlene Dilangalen and Jesus “Bong” Borromeo first met in 1975 on a flight from Davao City to Manila. At the time, she was still a junior nursing student. In 1980, she left her hometown in Cotabato for New Jersey as a new nurse graduate to work at St. Joseph’s Hospital (now […]
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Gregoria de Jesus: Madonna of the Revolution
By Joel David The biggest still-to-be-resolved controversy about the Philippines’s anticolonial revolution, the first in Asia, centers on the status of Andres Bonifacio, founder of its liberation army, the Katipunan. Most adequately schooled natives would be aware that recognition of his stature as head of the country’s liberated territories was wrested by a faction that […]
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The PHL is the only country with a diplomatic presence on 5th Ave: Fun fact as Philippine Center celebrates 50 years
By Cristina DC Pastor The Philippine Center was built in the 1970s during the time of the Marcos regime, a time when activist fervor was high and some Filipinos were wondering, “How can a poor country like the Philippines afford to own a building on Fifth Avenue in New York City?” Imelda Marcos, at the […]
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Egypt: Ingenious people, legendary pyramids
By Wendell Gaa Egypt has been a country I’ve been seeking to visit for practically most of my adult life, and just recently I’ve finally made that lifelong dream a reality. Together with some of my colleagues from the Philippine Embassy in Ankara, Türkiye, I’ve had the remarkable opportunity to travel down to the ancient […]
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Groundbreaking exhibit ‘TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis’ opens in Baltimore
By Crystal Turner Director of Communications & External Relations The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Baltimore, MD – The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is proud to announce that its highly anticipated exhibit, “TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis,” is now open. […]
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Dear Mr. Heydarian: ‘Your argument exposes an ignorance that is frustrating, amusing and careless’
By Agustin Guido There’s a certain art to rhetoric, but there’s also a fine line between eloquence and intellectual laziness. Richard Heydarian, in his attempt to wax geopolitical, made a statement that is as reductive as it is reckless: “I came from the North of the Country where our human development index is almost Southern […]
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Florence Finch, the brave Filipina POW who fought the Japanese
By Marissa Bañez On November 7, 1947, Florence Finch, daughter of an American father and a Filipina mother, was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman for saving the lives of countless World War II American prisoners of war of the Japanese in the Philippines: For meritorious service which had aided the United States […]