but in the history which the Jesuit fathers of Manila wrote of the propagation of Catholicism in the islands, printed in Volume IV. of First Report of Philippine Commission, (the Schurman,) not a ...

Philippine security forces completed a joint operation on Sunday, April 27, to assert the country's authority over several small islands near Pag-asa as China stepped up its activities in the area by ...

The Philippines, which disputes China's claim to the sandbank, responds by releasing a photo of its own forces on another.

Photograph by HelloRF ZCool, Shutterstock 15 min read Located in the Pacific Ocean near the equator, the Republic of the Philippines consists of around 7,640 islands — about 2,000 of which are ...

MacArthur and the U.S. army returned to the Philippines in 1944. After a bloody battle for Manila, the islands were declared liberated once more. More than 1 million Filipinos had died during the war.