Fr. Alex Aclan (Photo by Pablo Kay/angelusnews.com)
In the presence of thousands including clergy, friends, family members and many of his past parishioners, Fr. Alex Aclan took his vows to become the second Filipino American bishop after his close friend Salt Lake City Bishop Oscar Solis, (Balitang America).
Philip Joseph
A British accountant, Philip Joseph, 47, is facing the death penalty in the Philippines after allegedly being caught with meth in a drugs raid. Capital punishment has been suspended, but the Duterte government Is trying to get it reinstated (Daily Mail).
Canada expressed dismay at Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin’s Thursday decision to recall the Philippines’ top diplomatic officials because the Canadian government missed the midnight May 15 deadline for retrieving tons of garbage mistakenly shipped to Philippine ports (Inquirer.net).
Danny Favor (Source; ABS-CBN)
After being reelected as councilor for the third time in East Grinstead, West Sussex in the UK, Danny Favor, a Filipino nurse is the new town mayor of East Grinstead. Favor, an ophthalmic clinical nurse specialist at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in East Grinstead,migrated to the UK in 2000, with his wife, who is also a nurse (ABS-CBN).
“Yellow Rose” stars Eva Noblezada and Lea Salonga (Source: Playbill)
The mother-daughter story written and directed by Filipino American award-winning documentary and commercial director Diane Paragas and produced by ABS-CBN’s Cinematografo, “Yellow Rose,” won a grand slam over the weekend as it nabbed the Grand Jury Prize at three major film festivals (ABS-CBN).
Abraham Reyes and his Giga pearl (Source: CBC Toronto)
A Filipino Canadian owns what could be the world’s biggest natural pearl. The white and cream colored pearl from a giant clam was given to Abraham Reyes, 34, of Mississauga, as a family heirloom by his aunt some years ago, reports Inquirer.net.
Dadomar Das Castillo
Filipino cello prodigy Damodar Das Castillo, 11, won first prize in category B (age 11-13) of the International Competition for Young Musicians held in Talinn, Estonia April 9. He played Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C in the final round with a chamber orchestra at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, reports Inquirer.net.
Cynthia Alcantara-Barker
The colorful life and success story of Cynthia Alcantara-Barker, the first-ever elected Filipina councilor in the United Kingdom, is now the subject of a two-year-old, now-filming documentary film, reports Manlla Bulletin.
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