Today, April 8, or 505 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan landed in Cebu, where he met Hari’ Humabon, and forged an alliance marking the first sustained Spanish contact with a Philippine polity.

MANILA, Philippines - The BRP Rajah Humabon (PF–11) is the Philippine Navy’s flagship and its 60 crew members believe they are the strongest expression of Philippine sovereignty even as they ...

A historic wooden bust of the suffering Jesus Christ is coming home to Cebu. The Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) decided to return the four century-old image to the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy will no longer turn BRP Rajah Humabon, which was decommissioned in 2018, into a museum. Humabon was found partly submerged, along with World War II-era ...

The authorities have awarded the archbishop the highest civil honour. Among the reasons given were his exemplary contribution to the city and for having made gestures with a high social impact on its ...

It is understandable that the commemoration of the first world circumnavigation in the Philippines has, as highlight, the exploit of Lapu-Lapu, the local David who defeated an almighty Goliath ...

VietNamNet Bridge - The Philippine Navy is sending its biggest warship BRP Rajah Humabon for patrol operations around Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. VietNamNet Bridge - The Philippine ...

WHEN I first visited Cebu City in 2014, I went to see this monument that I used to show students in my PowerPoint presentations. Not too many people visit him, unlike Lapulapu’s monument at the ...

The Philippine Navy’s oldest warship BRP Rajah Humabon (PS-11), which rendered almost four decades of service, was decommissioned on Thursday at a naval base in Sangley Point, Cavite. The former ...

The chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on Sunday assured that the country’s naval flagship would not go beyond the country’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, as it ...