VERA Files
Boholanos celebrate the Christmas season with vigor a year after Typhoon Odette robbed them of holiday joy.
It needs strong political will from both the local and national leadership to first protect its people from natural and man-made disasters. The people should be spared from a bigger disaster, that is, politics.
The Bohol Sea is an important marine heritage site and one of the country’s richest fishing grounds, but overfishing has led to a diminishing catch.
The Philippine Visual Arts Festival Bohol 2018 caught Boholanos and Central Visayas by surprise with its varied art offerings, including art installations that used the island province’s iconic heritage landscapes as backdrops.
The folk carol tradition is considered an endangered folk Christmas community theater act now and is rarely practiced in the towns of Maribojoc, Antequera and Baclayon.
CALAPE, Bohol- The Gothic-style church has been repaired and repainted in time for this town’s fiesta.
At the provincial capital, Tagbilaran, the celebration started before the May 1 feast day with a 12-day novena priming up the community for the annual festivities in honor of its patron saint, St.Joseph, the worker.
INABANGA, Bohol. – Residents of this tranquil town are going through real suffering as they join the Christian world in the observance of Semana Santa recalling the passion of Christ some 2, 000 years ago.
Text and photos by COOPER RESABAL LOON, Bohol. Three years after the October 15 earthquake that hit Bohol hard, some residents of this island province are still haunted by the sudden loss of their loved ones. Many, however, have picked up the pieces of their lives shattered by the powerful tremor, and have since focused […]
By PROCOPIO RESABAL, JR TAGBILARAN CITY – In a bus terminal in the capital one morning, as a bus going to Ubay town fills up with passengers, PO3 Janew Villame boards the vehicle with his guitar, stands on the aisle behind the driver’s seat, and begins to sing “Round Bohol Rock.” The song, composed and […]
Text and Video By COOPER RESABAL MARIBOJOC, Bohol – Simeona Guilen, in her sixties, opens the pages of a discolored notebook containing the handwritten lyrics of “Daygon sa Igue-Igue/Pagkatawo” (Praise for the Birth), a fast disappearing folk Christmas musical tradition in the island province featuring dancing “pastores” (shepherds) and the Holy Couple being refused a […]