BACLAYON, Bohol — On Feb. 27, Sylvia Fernandez-Maristela closed her bakery and asked her four employees to go on leave. It was a special day, she told them. She was giving them the day off so they ...

The Immaculate Conception Parish church, which is more popularly known as the Baclayon church, was reopened on Tuesday. The structure is one of the churches destroyed after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake ...

December 6 was a memorable day for the town of Baclayon not only because it was two days before the town’s fiesta, celebrated on December 8 in honor of their patroness, Our Lady of the Immaculate ...

Archbishop Gabriel Giordano Caccia, papal nuncio to the Philippines, witnessed the handover this week of a newly restored church to Tagbilaran Diocese in Bohol province. The Immaculate Conception ...

MANILA, Philippines - Kirial De Baclayon Ano 1826, a book on Hispanic Sacred Music in 19th Century Bohol, Philippines was recently launched by the Intramuros Administration with the Filipino Heritage ...

TOURISTS and travelers have other reasons to go to Baclayon town aside from wanting to see its century-old church, which was damaged by the earthquake that shook Bohol province two years ago. At the ...

TWO years after the Bohol earthquake, and subsequent conservation work on damaged heritage structures by national cultural agencies, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) is now ...

BACLAYON, Bohol – It used to be a major stop along the tourist route from the Blood Compact memorial to the Chocolate Hills, but after the destructive quake two months ago, the 18th century coral ...

I watched a most heartwarming Christmas story in, of all places, Baclayon, Bohol, early this year. It was a puppet show staged by the neighborhood youngsters who, with touching earnestness, ...