Around 300 parishioners from Barangay Marikina Heights will embark on a spiritual journey to 10 Pilgrim Churches under the ...

“The execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk-yeol has begun,” said the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which is probing Yoon’s short-lived declaration of martial law, with its ...

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I recall only two official executions by musketry. The most famous took place on Dec. 30, 1896, when Jose Rizal was shot at Bagumbayan. The other was that of Lim Seng, a Chinese national believed to ...

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Historians say they married at daybreak before his execution by firing squad in the Bagumbayan field, now Rizal Park ... ensuring its rightful place within the National Fine Arts Collection ...

On February 7, 1587, she was told she would be executed the following morning and spent her last hours praying, giving out her possessions, and writing her will. She was beheaded on a scaffold in ...

Every year, the 30th of December is commemorated by Filipinos as a regular holiday. It marks Dr. Jose Rizal‘s death anniversary or the day when the Spaniards executed him by musketry on charges of ...

Rizal was executed on December 30, 1896, in Bagumbayan, now Rizal Park, in Manila, primarily due to his writings that were critical of the Spanish colonial rule. His novels Noli Me Tangere and El ...

The president then laid a wreath at the hero's monument. The ceremony, held at the place where Rizal was executed in 1896 by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion, was solemn.

Today we commemorate the anniversary of the 1896 execution of National Hero Jose Rizal in Bagumbayan. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines has lined up several activities for the hero ...