MANILA (Reuters) - Each night, police in teams of about a dozen fan out across the most rundown areas of the Philippine capital, rounding up slum-dwellers who linger in the streets, or teenagers who ...

A child-focused charity has called for the safety and welfare of children from 5.6 million poor families in the Philippines who are exposed to various risks and hazards from natural disasters. While ...

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines said his government's controversial war on drugs is really a war against the country's poor. "There is no war against illegal drugs, because the supply is not ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — In a crackdown bearing the Philippine president-elect's name, police have rounded up hundreds of children or their parents to enforce a night curfew for minors, and taken ...

Slum dwellers from around urban poor communities in Manila marched in the streets days before Christmas to reenact the travails of Joseph and Mary in search of lodging. The poor residents dramatized ...