Northern VA offers Mass for Cory Aquino

The Filipino Ministry of Northern Virginia held a holy mass in loving memory of the former President Corazon Aquino on September 19, 2009 at St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Springfield, VA.

The late former President Cory Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines and was installed as President in the peaceful 1986 People Power Revolution. Cory Aquino was diagnosed with colon cancer in March 2008 – died of cardiorespiratory arrest after complications of colon cancer at the age of 76 on August 1, 2009 at the Makati Medical Center. Read more

Para kay Tita Cory

Freedom loving Filipinos around the world mourn the death of a beloved icon, Cory Aquino. Tita Cory, as most people fondly call her, was instrumental in restoring democracy, political order, honesty and integrity in the Philippine government.

I remember the tumultuous times of the 80s and I was also on my freshman year in college. I would join rallies and demonstrations on the streets. I would also join the barricades at the gate of PUP, Read more