Ted Alcuitas

FBI investigates Quiboloy church in Hawaii for trafficking

Canada News, International News, Philippine News, Politics, Religion

In better times – President Rodrigo Duterte and Quiboloy shares a laugh before the falling out.(Rappler photo) ‘Son of God’ is Duterte’s biggest supporter By Ted Alcuitas The FBI is investigating the local chapter of Apollo Quiboloy’s controversial church for aggressive fundraising in Hawaii and possible human trafficking, The Inquirer reports quoting  a Hawaii news […]

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Philippine Holy Week rituals: EJK infects performance

Arts & Culture, Philippine News, Politics, Religion

Vicente Rafael shared Ezra Acayan‘s post. 7 hrs · Ezra Acayan photographs and reports on Good Friday in Navotas, land of many extra-judicial killings. Here, you can see how Hollywood and the aesthetics of EJK’s have inflected the performances of devotion into extreme rituals of bloody abjection. “No. This is not your favourite horror slasher

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Migration: Philippines sends its women abroad

Foreign Temporary Workers, International News, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs, Philippine News, Politics

Overseas Filipino workers say their goodbyes to their loved ones before leaving for another country to work. ABS-CBN News file photo ABS/CBN Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation Posted at Mar 30 2018 09:17 AM PAMANTINGAN – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she

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Food: Kulinarya on the Drive disappoints

Food/Restaurants

MARCH 29, 2018WHATSINMYMOUTH In a quandary about Kulinarya on the Drive Monica Urrutia   First impressions for Kulinarya on the Drive were all great! It opened promptly at 11 for our early lunch reservation. The restaurant was fresh and clean. Decor had a hip and modern Philippine vibe with great colours. The music was R&B

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Holy Thursday: Cardinal Tagle washes feet of priest kidnapped by rebels

Philippine News, Religion

Philippines Father Teresito Soganub, who had been held captive for months in Marawi, Philippines, cries as Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila washes his feet during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 29 in Manila. Father Soganub is vicar general of the prelature of Marawi. (CNS/Roy Lagarde, courtesy CBCPNews) Mar 29, 2018 by Catholic

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Pasalamat: Crisanta Sampang is back

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs, Philippine News

The couple Crisanta Sampang and Daniel  Wood expresses thanks for the support. (GoFundMe photo) Vancouver, B.C. Daniel Wood sent email of thanks today:   Friends:   Almost a month ago Crisanta and I found ourselves caught in a  terrible Catch-22.  Her heart attacked required open-heart  surgery in the Philippines, where she’d been briefly visiting. But

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HK Filipinos took to streets to protest recall of labour attache

Foreign Temporary Workers, International News, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs, Philippine News

Hundreds gather to protest recall of popular labour attache. (HK PINOY TV)   Philippines Attache was recalled abruptly By Ted Alcuitas The recalll of a popular labour attache in Hong Kong has prompted a demonstration by Filipino workers against the move by the Philippine government. Jalilo Dela Torre was taken by surprise on Friday (March

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Government appoints two Pinoy lawyers

Canada News

Updated: 8:15 PM, March 22, 2018 Updated: 7:45 PM. March 22, 2018   British Columbia Appointment of Imperial and Nicolas a first By Ted Alcuitas The provincial government has appointed two Filipino-Canadian lawyers to the board of governors for BCIT and VCC recently. The appointments are a first for the Filipino community, the fastest growing

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Cardinal ‘Chito’ Tagle wows Vancouver audience

Canada News, Live-in Caregivers (LCP)

Updated:  8:00 PM, March 21, 2018 Cardinal Tagle addresses a capacity-filled auditorium as Bishops J.Michael Miller (right), archbishop of Vancouver and Bishop Ken Nowakowski of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster listens. (Photo: The B.C. Catholic) Vancouver, B.C. Filipinos love their cardinal By Ted Alcuitas It was a sea of Filipinos in the 2,929-seat auditorium

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Friends seek help for stricken Crisanta Sampang

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP)

Author and filmmaker Crisanta Sampang will be flown back to Vancouver on Tuesday, March 20 for an open-heart operation. (StoryHive) Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver author suffered heart attack in Philippines Former caregiver and author Crisanta Sampang suffered a heart attack while visiting relatives in the Philippines recently. Doctors in the Philippines determined that she needed open-heart

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