News in Photos

News in Photos: Ashes and thick smoke envelope Mount Mayon as it erupts

LEGASPI, Albay (Eagle News) — Photos of Mount Mayon covered by thick smoke and ash as it erupts on Tuesday morning, January 16, 2018. (Photos by Eagle News Correspondent Rebert Soriao) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology notes “quiet lava effusion from a new summit lava dome” in Mayon volcano. It also noted lava flow down the Miisi and Bonga Gullies and lava collapse events characterized Mayon Volcano’s eruptive activity from Monday to Tuesday […]

News in Photos: Mayon Volcano spews ash

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Monday morning, January 15 said it monitored an ash column coming from the volcano due to two incident of “lava collapse.” (Photos courtesy of Eagle News Correspondent Orlando Encinares)

In photos: Rescue workers, including those from INC’s SCAN International, help storm “Vinta” victims

    (Eagle News) — Government and other rescue workers, including those from the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s SCAN International, joined together to help thousands of people affected by severe tropical storm Vinta (international name Tembin) which had killed more than a hundred people, with others still declared missing. As of Saturday, December 23, the latest death tool reached 133 in southern Philippines, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. The […]

Catholic Church sells 1914-built church edifice in Philadelphia, USA to Iglesia Ni Cristo

Mater Dolorosa church closed and sold due to dwindling mass attendance, and mounting operational deficits   (Eagle News) — An old Catholic church edifice built in 1914 in Philadelphia was recently sold by the Catholic Church to the Iglesia Ni Cristo, four years since it was closed due to dwindling mass attendance. The Iglesia Ni Cristo, a global Christian Church first registered in the Philippines on July 27, 1914, bought the Mater Dolorosa Catholic church […]