First of a series LAST June 22 and July 1, 2025, fellow Manila Times columnist Xiao Chua and I took our Philippine History ...

Jose Rizal is one of them. A walk with Rizal “A Walk with Rizal” is a historical tour of one hour, put together by our ambassador to Spain in 1996, Isabel Caro Wilson with Eve Fleisher Diago.

GMA Films' 1998 classic masterpiece Jose Rizal will be screened on March 4, 2022 at the cinematheque of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain. Also shown last February 18, the three-hour epic on the ...

In the calendar of commemorative holidays, Filipinos celebrate two in the month of June. The first is June 12, Philippine ...

TO anyone with a modicum of sensitivity, the execution of Jose Rizal must seem like an act of extreme cruelty and injustice. When I read Noli Me Tangere at the age of 21, I did not yet know that he ...

This column missed writing on Rizal Day that was commemorated on December 30. It would have been a good time to remind Filipinos that Jose Rizal owed much of his political teachings to Republican ...

Jose Rizal’s prison cell in Barcelona now a place of honor . ... Philippine Ambassador to Spain Carlos C. Salinas said in his address at the April 8 ceremony that the inauguration of the Sala José ...

We know Jose Rizal, we know what he did, ... Some argue he did not support armed struggle against Spain, that he preferred true representation and reform to independence.

Jose Rizal: 12 facts you need ... Though José Rizal called for peaceful reform of Spain's colonial rule in the Philippines and abhorred violence in his writings, a colonial court sentenced him to ...