SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES—For 32 years, Casa San Miguel, an arts and culture sanctuary in this coastal town, has marked Good Friday with an unconventional Lenten tradition: a stirring rendition of Joseph Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ.” The event blends live classical music with performance-reading, reimagining the centuries-old masterpiece into a shared experience of reflection, silence,...
Author: Jen Velarmino-van der Heijde
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Footprints on Scarborough Shoal
On May 17, 1997, the first group of journalists embarked on an extraordinary expedition to this triangle-shaped coral reef now part of long-running geopolitical tension between the Philippines and China. It was a place few had heard of, let alone visited, at a time when the world was still grappling with dial-up internet and flip...