23 June 2012 in Berlin
Filipino Cultural Event, "UGAT"
Featuring "Lahing Kayumanggi" Dance Co. from London and the Philippine "Barangay Folk Dance Troupe" of Manila. >> read more
02. June 2012, Saturday, 16.30 Hr Gemeinschafthaus Gropiusstadt Bat-Yam Platz 1, 12353 Berlin.
Club Bol-anon e.V. and the Filipiniana Dance Group, Berlin proudly present MABUHAY KALAYAAN 2012, a benefit show.
Featuring the Philippine folk Dances of the Cordillera Mountains (Igorot), the Taga-Ummah (Muslim), the Traditionalists (Lumad) and the Low-land western-Christians (Spanish Era). >> read more
Terra X: Dirk Steffens und das Drehteam von Faszination Erde auf den Philippinen trafen in dem Inselreich auf ungewöhnliche Tiere, aktive Vulkane und Inselbewohner mit verblüffenden Fähigkeiten. >>see video
The Philippine Community celebrates Sinulog Festival last 15. January 2012 at the Heilig-Geist-Kirche(Bayernallee 28, 14052 Berlin). Sinulog is a yearly Cebuano traditional feast in adoration of the image Santo Ninyo.
Philippines: The Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR) is now officially one of the New-7-Wonders of Nature. >>see livestreaming
Fr. Simon Boiser II, SVD
05. August 2011 - Fr. Simon Boiser takes over the pastoral duty as the chaplain of the Philippine Community in Berlin. He finished his priesthood studies at the mission Seminary St. Augustin, Germany and ordained priest on 12. June 2005. Three days after his ordination Fr. Simon, together with three other newly ordained priests, celebrated mass at the tomb of Saint Arnold Janssen where the Steyler mission originated. He stayed on in Germany to work as a school chaplain and parish priest.
6 August 2011 – H.E. Maria Cleofe Natividad assumed as the Philippine Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Germany on 20 July 2011, succeeding former Ambassador Delia D. Albert. read more
PHILIPPINE POLITICS: WHAT NOW?
President Benigno S. Aquino III during the YouTube World View interview at the Presidential Broadcast Studio, Malacañan Palace. The YouTube World View interviews are interactive dialogues in which leaders, through livestreaming, respond to questions submitted by their citizens online. President Aquino is the first head of state from the Asia Pacific to participate in this series. you tube
CHRONICLE: SPEECHES OF PRES. AQUINO
13. October 2011:
Speech of President Aquino at the 37th Philippine Business Conference
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PhilHealth is increasing the premiums to be collected from OFWs and that it offers redundant coverage for OFWs lucky enough to get jobs abroad that already offer full medical protection. If PhilHealth succeeds in its hunt for this syndicate and in stamping out corruption, it should be able to perform its mission without hiking OFW premiums. On the other hand, redundancy of coverage is no excuse to be released completely from PhilHealth, and since universal health to be viable needs to be leveraged as broadly as possible across the entire spectrum, premiums can be adjusted to show a nuanced recognition that some OFWs are differently situated.
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16. January 2012: Historic impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona starts; prosecution, defense present cases
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Opening statement of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile
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Opening statement of the Defense Panel delivered by Atty. Eduardo De Los Angeles
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Opening statement for the Prosecution delivered by Rep. Niel C. Tupas Jr.
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Was the Philippines ever short or over-supplied of rice? read more
BLOGS
Ambeth Ocampo
Young people who see the term “Pinoy Scandal” presume it is short for Pinoy (Sex) Scandal and expect graphic porn.
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Randy David
When Representative Raul Daza stood up last week at the Senate impeachment trial to introduce himself as the prosecution lead counsel for the day, Presiding Senator-Judge Juan Ponce Enrile formally acknowledged him, and fondly called him “brod.”
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Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD
The story is told about two husbands conversing. The first one asked: “Honestly speaking, when you see a beautiful woman, what do you look at first, the face or the body?” The second one said: “Honestly speaking, when I see a woman, I look first at my wife, if she is looking at me.”
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Cardinal Dr. Rainer Maria Woelki
Vor einer Woche wurde ich im Petersdom in Rom von Papst Benedikt XVI. in die Reihe der Kardinäle aufgenommen. Ich saß zum ersten Mal in der ersten Reihe direkt vor dem großartigen Hochaltar unter der Kuppel von St. Peter und fühlte mich doch ein wenig klein.
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CONTACT
ADDRESS:
Berlin Philippine Community
Bayernallee 28
14052 Berlin (Charlottenburg) Map Location
HOLY MASS every SUNDAY 15:30 HR at the HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH: location
Parish Chaplain: Fr. Simon Boiser SVD
email : simonsvd@gmail.com
Webmaster : Alan Valdez email : editor@filipinos-in-berlin.de