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All Saints Day in the Philippines: No Equality even in Death

November 1st or All Saints Day is a Christian holiday to honour all the saints. For Catholics, it’s a holiday of obligation. For Filipinos it is a holiday to commemorate all ...

November 1 - 15, 2019

Editorial: Saint Andres Bonifacio (November 2019)
November not only commemorates All Saints and All Souls days but celebrates the birth of Philippine national hero Andres Bonifacio on November 30. To most Filipinos, he may not personify the idea of a conventional saint (he was a freemason married to a Catholic Gregoria de Jesus) but looking back at his life, Andres Bonifacio truly deserves a place in heaven and worthy of emulation by so many of us Filipinos who struggle to make ends meet while aspiring to serve a purpose much bigger than our own. Read more

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Top 7 Filipino Christmas traditions

Filipinos celebrate the longest Christmas season in the ...

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Philippine Christmas: The fiesta of all fiestas

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” Norman Vincent ...

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Philippine Consulates General and Embassy in Canada gear up toward 2019 Winter Escapade

Now on its sixth year, the Winter Escapade Tour will highlight the culture, heritage and history of Batangas and the natural beauty of El Nido in ...

Filipino-focused school curriculum goes mainstream in Toronto

It’s called the Philippine Arts and Social Sciences in the Ontario Curriculum, or Passoc for short. For Filipino ears, Passoc sounds like the Tagalog word pasok, which means ‘to enter’, and ...

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Christmas Belen tradition brings Baby Jesus to Vancouver homes

When I was growing up in the Philippines, our family did not have a Christmas tree during the ...

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Around the world with the Philippine national hero through Sentro Rizal

Named after the Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal, Sentro Rizal (Rizal Centre) was established by Republic Act 10066 or the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009 to promote Philippine arts, ...

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Kababayang Pilipino top bills Vancouver’s Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House

Vancouver-based Kababayang Pilipino of British Columbia headlines this year’s Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House on September 15 with a special hour-long matinee performance at 2 ...

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British Columbia’s Delta Parish adopts Filipino religious tradition of Salubong

(Editor’s note: Since our April 1-15 edition is coming out on Easter Sunday, Canadian Filipino Net wishes to greet our readers A Happy Easter with an article about the observance of Holy Week by ...

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