While Spain legalised divorce in 1981, its legacy lives on in the Philippines — the only place other than the Vatican where divorce remains outlawed. Today the Philippines is the third largest ...

Divorce is illegal for most residents of the Philippines, despite a special law that gave the nation's Muslim minority the ...

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But even after all she had been through, Bulang, who lives with her four children in the province of Rizal just outside Metro Manila, was unable to divorce him. The Philippines is the only country ...

Manila, the Philippines – Veronica Bebero recalls the despair she felt being interrogated by police inside a locked room at the United States Embassy in Manila. National Bureau of Investigation ...

Divorce is illegal in the largely Catholic Philippines, but as a bill for legalization is to be deliberated by the senate, women enduring domestic violence advocate the controversial bill.

on the potential criminalization and sinning due to the ban on divorce in this unfortunate country, we are more convinced than ever that its legalization in the Philippines is a pressing necessity.

Currently, the Philippines and the Vatican are the only two countries in the world where there is no divorce law. Kristina Millare is a freelance journalist with a professional communications ...

Manila (AsiaNews) - The fact of being practically the last country in the world not to have a divorce law does not in itself mean that the Philippines should also jump on the bandwagon.

Only two countries in the world still ban divorce: the Vatican and the Philippines. But the tides seem to be shifting in the Southeast Asian nation. https://p.dw.com ...