Category: GMA News
After years abroad, an OFW”s Christmas homecoming
For Reimar Basaen, this year”s Christmas is different. After spending years away from home, the 35-year-old food service manager working in Laos has returned to the Philippines just in time for the holidays.
How did Camille Prats and VJ Yambao”s kids accept their relationship? Couple answers
Before getting married, Camille Prats and her husband, VJ Yambao, had kids from their previous relationships.
YEARENDER: Flood control cases, complaints, referrals filed in 2025
Following President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.”s warning against officials pocketing public funds during his State of the Nation Address, the country is now facing what may be the biggest controversy under his administration: a flood control scandal allegedly involving multiple public officials.
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.
To those celebrating alone, still a Merry Christmas
Christmas has a way of reminding people where they belong. For many Filipinos, December is a return. It is the month of going home, of packed tables and familiar noise, of voices that overlap because everyone is finally in the same room again. The season assumes company. But not everyone arrives there.
Cardinal David: Show kindness, compassion
Calookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio Cardinal David has urged Catholics to practice “pagkalinga,” or compassion, during the Christmas Eve Mass at the San Roque Cathedral Parish in Caloocan.
Marcos urges Filipinos to give to poor, sick, calamity-stricken on Christmas Day
Amid the Christmas festivities, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Thursday called on Filipinos to not forget those who are in need of compassion and generosity in these times, particularly the poor, sick, calamity-stricken, and the marginalized.
DSWD urges Filipinos to visit residents of care facilities during holiday season
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday urged Filipinos to consider celebrating the Christmas holidays by spending time with elderly and young residents of the DSWD”s centers and residential care facilities (CRCFs) across the country.
