A Homonhon priest urged the government to restore the “sacredness” of their island that has long been “desecrated” by big mining, in an impassioned appeal as the Catholic Church marks its 500th year ...

TACLOBAN CITY — Government leaders of Eastern Samar province have appealed to mining companies operating on Homonhon Island to protect the watershed of the historic place amid the lack of drinking ...

'We urge the National Historical Commission of the Philippines to take a firm stand against the continued destruction of Homonhon Island,' says the Save Homonhon Movement CEBU, Philippines – ...

TACLOBAN CITY—Nearly all of Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar—famously known as Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s landing site in 1521—has been placed under mining contracts, prompting ...

GUIUAN, Eastern Samar — The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), together with 4Ps partylist Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan, launched a road project in Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern ...

The newly built St. John the Baptist Parish Church on the historic Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. It remains an “academic discussion” whether or not the “first Mass in the Philippines” took ...

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has established a station on historic Homonhon Island in Guiuan town, Eastern Samar province, to monitor the movements of Chinese ...

BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN SAMAR—Homonhon’s palm-lined white sandy beaches and lush hills must have made quite an impression on the expedition led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as they wound ...

We reached Homonhon last week, three hours by motorized boat from Guiuan, Eastern Samar. From the port to the Magellan Landing Site in Cantilan meant a five-kilometer travel on a rough, rust-colored ...

The news barely registered among a public coping with the extraordinary threat of a pandemic, but there was a moment a couple of weeks ago when it seemed that the Philippines had finally found the ...