Philippine authorities are blaming a defective electrical outlet for a massive fire that razed a squatters' colony in Manila's financial district and left about 8,000 people homeless.

Fr. Flaviano Antonio Villanueva – who has been providing shelter and restoring the dignity of homeless people and victims of extrajudicial killings – is this year’s Ramon Magsaysay awardee from the ...

After days of monsoon rains and flooding in the Philippines, tropical storm Co-may further exacerbated the situation in the north of the country on Friday. At least 30 landslides occurred in the ...

Fire raced through a slum near the main port in the Philippine capital, killing a 5-year-old girl, gutting hundreds of shanties and leaving 4,000 people homeless, an official said Sunday.

Hundreds of villagers were left homeless after a massive fire ate through their houses in the Philippines. The fire was said to have broken out at a two-storey home and spread through Mantuyong ...

Lawmakers in the Philippines call for an inquiry into allegations that public funds were used to “hide” homeless families during the Pope’s visit.

Hundreds of homeless families in the Philippines took over an abandoned government housing project this week to show "indignation" over what they described as "government neglect of the poor." "This ...

The new street-homeless are everywhere – in the streets, on sidewalks, along the seawall of Manila Bay, and outside idle lands, abandoned buildings – as ubiquitous as their dirty laundry, left ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, famous for his bloody war on drugs and his obsession with social order, has launched a war on loitering. Duterte launched it out of the blue on June 13 during ...