Residents carry recovered belongings after a fire broke out in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday. Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA-EFE Nov. 25 (UPI) --A large fire swept through a shanty town near the ...

Father Flavie Villanueva blesses palm fronds held by Manila’s homeless and relatives of Duterte drug war victims, at the Catholic Trade Building on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Credit: Roy ...

Three people were injured and 230 families were left homeless after a fire razed a shantytown in Mandaluyong on Friday, the Bureau of Fire Protection said. The BFP-National Capital Region field unit ...

A Catholic center in the Philippine capital Manila has reopened its doors to allow the homeless and hungry to have meals and bathe, ending a closure for more than two years due to the Covid-19 ...

Many of the Philippines' poor live in slums or on the streets - Copyright AFP Yasin AKGUL Many of the Philippines' poor live in slums or on the streets - Copyright ...

Disaster authorities evacuated hundreds of families in Manila on Nov. 14 due to a fire that lasted for five hours and left five people dead, including a mother and her two-year-old son. The ...

Arson investigators said the blaze was triggered by a faulty electric cooker in a house at the Laperal compound in Makati city in Manila. It was the fifth major fire at the compound, which is filled ...

Golden Gays member Al Enriquez, better known as “Carmen Dela Rue,” then 82 years old, pushes a wooden cart while working as a street vendor in an alley in Manila, June 2, 2018. Credit - Noel Celis—AFP ...

MANILA (Reuters) - A massive fire swept through a crowded shanty town near the docks in Manila, destroying houses and leaving 15,000 people homeless, authorities in the Philippine capital said on ...

Nov. 25 (UPI) --A large fire swept through a shanty town near the port area of Manila in the Philippines on Sunday night, destroying about 1,000 homes and leaving more than 8,000 people homeless.

The path to the Home for the Golden Gays is dark and littered with stray cats. To get in and out at night, its elderly residents need to use flashlights to assist their deteriorating eyesight as they ...