The Philippine Independent Church is an independent Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church, in the Philippines. Its schism from the Roman Catholic Church was proclaimed during the American colonial period in 1902, following the end of the Philippine–American War, by members of the Unión Obrera Democrática Filipina due to the mistreatment towards the Filipinos by Spanish priests, and partly influenced by the unjust executions of José Rizal and Filipino priests and prominent secularization movement figures Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, during earlier Spanish colonial rule.
Spanish was the official language of the Philippines from the beginning of Spanish rule in the late 16th century, through the Philippine–American War (1899-1902) and subsequent American occupation and remained co-official after independence in 1946, along with Filipino and English, until 1973. Its status was initially removed in 1973 by a constitutional change, but after a few months it was re-designated an official language again by a presidential decree. With the present Constitution, Spanish became designated as an auxiliary or "optional and voluntary language".
Fam or FAM is a colloquial term for 'family and friend' or an acronym of 'friend and mate' especially for intimate friends. It may also refer to:
Banate, officially the Municipality of Banate, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 33,376 people.
Filipinos are citizens or people identified with the country of the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today are predominantly Catholic and come from various Austronesian peoples, all typically speaking Filipino, English, or other Philippine languages. Despite formerly being subject to Spanish colonialism, only around 2-4% of Filipinos are fluent in Spanish. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines each with its own language, identity, culture, tradition, and history.
Consuelo Inés Araújo Noguera, also known as "La Cacica", was a Colombian politician, writer and self-taught journalist. Her nickname was given by a fellow journalist colleague for her tenacity and determination to achieve goals and leadership.
Elvira Lindo is a Spanish journalist and writer.
The Presidential Broadcast Service - Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS), is a state radio network owned by the Philippine government under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).
DZSR, on-air as Radyo Pilipinas Dos (RP2) or RP2 Sports, is a radio station owned and operated by the Presidential Broadcast Service, an attached agency under the Presidential Communications Office. The station's studio is located at the 4th floor, Media Center Building, Visayas Avenue, Barangay Vasra, Diliman, Quezon City, and its transmitter is located at Malolos, Bulacan. DZSR operates daily from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM or after the PBA games.
Guillermo Gómez Rivera is a Spanish Filipino multilingual author, historian, educator and linguistic scholar whose lifelong work has been devoted to the advocay to preserve Spanish culture as an "important element" of the Filipino identity.
DZRM, on-air as Radyo Pilipinas Tres (RP3) or RP3 Alert, is a radio station owned and operated by the Presidential Broadcast Service. The station's studios and offices are Located at the 4th Floor, PIA/Media Center Building, Visayas Ave., Brgy. Vasra, Diliman, Quezon City, and its transmitter at Brgy. Marulas, Valenzuela.
Channel 10 is a Uruguayan free-to-air television network based in Montevideo. It began its transmission in 1956 as the first television broadcaster in the country and the fourth in Latin America. Its owned and operated by Sociedad Anónima Emisora de Emisión Televisión y Anexos. The network's headquarters are in the Palermo neighbourhood.
In early Philippine history, barangay is the term historically used by scholars to describe the complex sociopolitical units that were the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago in the period immediately before the arrival of European colonizers. Academics refer to these settlements using the technical term "polity", but they are usually simply called "barangays".
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821. This resulted in direct Spanish control during a period of governmental instability there. The Philippines was under direct royal governance from 1821 to 1898.
Fidela Magpayo Reyes, commonly known as Tiya Dely, was a Filipino radio broadcasting icon well-loved by generations of listeners and advice-seekers who tuned into her radio counselling programs. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster who debuted in the 1950s and was among the first wave of broadcasters who popularized Filipino music whilst American music still dominated the Philippine airwaves following the country's liberation from the United States.
Película is a Spanish film festival held every October by the Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to the Philippines. Created in 2002, this event shows award-winning Spanish and Latin American films.
e-Dyario was the first Spanish digital newspaper based in the Philippines established in Manila on 2010 and made by Filipino journalists. e-Dyario was part of the international cooperation project of Ventura de los Reyes, an initiative supported by the Government of Spain through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) and developed by Kapatiran Sandugo Foundation, with assistance from Association Press of Cadiz. Its aim was to promote the use of Spanish language and the traits of the Spanish-Filipino culture all over the country. It also has an article section written in Chavacano language.
The Code of Rajah Kalantiaw was a supposed legal code in the epic history Maragtas that is said to have been written in 1433 by Datu Kalantiaw, a chief on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It is now generally accepted by historians that the documents supporting the existence and history of the code, according to some sources, “appear to be deliberate fabrications with no historical validity" written in 1913 by a scholar named Jose Marco as a part of a historical fiction titled Las antiguas leyendas de la Isla de Negros.
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