The lanterns are hung in windows and carried in processions before Christmas and at mass in towns and cities across the Philippines, Canlas explained. Canlas understood the parols’ power some 20 years ...

As Christmas is deeply ingrained in Philippine culture, a significant number of the 2.16 million overseas Filipino workers are returning home to spend Christmas with their loved ones.

Sunday's Mass has been observed by Filipino parishioners throughout the Phoenix diocese for decades but will be a first for the house of worship.

Parol is dervied from the Spanish word for lantern, 'farol' FILSPARC's parol ... parol has been a major symbol of Filipino Christmas everywhere in the world. Here in Australia, acquiring or ...

my Mummy would come with a lantern from the Philippines. Each year we wanted it to be better. But then she passed away in 2021. But I still want to continue it because I know seeing the Christmas ...