They gradually fell into place in the Spanish scheme as a new aristocracy ... Judging Spain by modern standards of colonization, we might praise her if she had taken over simply the social ...

Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ on Thursday in one of the world’s grandest displays of Catholic ...

Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries ... a key legacy of more than 300 years of Spanish colonization in the Philippine archipelago.

All those who have watched “The Kingdom” will agree that it deserves the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Award at the recent Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Gabi ng Parangal.

Owing to centuries of Spanish colonization, the Philippines is one of the only predominantly Catholic countries in Asia. That has had a lasting impact on the archipelagic nation’s culture ...