Pope Francis open to PH invitation – Binay
By Maila Ager
Pope Francis has expressed openness to an invitation to visit the Philippines during the 51st International Eucharistic Congress slated in 2016, Vice President Jejomar Binay said Wednesday.
Pope Francis has expressed openness to an invitation to visit the Philippines during the 51st International Eucharistic Congress slated in 2016, Vice President Jejomar Binay said Wednesday.
The Philippines is the only country in the world for which the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its economic growth forecast for 2012, according to visiting IMF managing director Christine Lagarde.
Vice President Jejomary Binay on Thursday welcomed the decision of Saudi Arabia to lift its ban on the deployment of Filipino household service workers (HRWs), saying the move affirmed the strong relationship between the two countries.
Vice President Jejomar Binay has vowed to prosecute the recruiter of a Filipino migrant worker who was illegally deployed to Jordan and experienced abuse at the hands of her employers.
Vice President Jejomar Binay is leaving for Malaysia on Sunday on an official working visit. Afterward he will proceed to the United States to attend a housing finance conference and Philippine Independence Day celebrations.
President Benigno Aquino III will make his first presidential visit to Los Angeles on June 8.
The Philippine government will officially make known its opposition to North Korea’s plan to launch an observation satellite into space next month, during the 2nd Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul.
Vice President Jejomar Binay has vowed to continue seeking reprieves for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) facing the death penalty in other countries.
The Philippine government has flown to China four family members of a 35-year-old Filipino drug trafficking convict scheduled to be executed tomorrow.
Amnesty International (AI) has joined calls for China to stop the execution of a Filipino convicted of drug trafficking, and to delist “nonlethal offenses” from the crimes punishable by death.
China has yet to give Vice President Jejomar Binay the go-ahead for his proposed trip to Beijing, where he will try to seek a postponement for “humanitarian reasons” of the Dec. 8 execution of a Filipino drug trafficker.
Immigration agents at the country’s international airports should not just offload Filipino workers holding overseas employment certificates (OECs) on the mere suspicion that these are fake, leaders of recruitment groups said on Friday.
