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As per Executive Order No. 292, chapter 7 section 26, the following are regular holidays and special days, approved on July 25, 1987. [35] Note that in the list, holidays in bold are "regular holidays" and those in italics are "nationwide special days". January 1 – New Year's Day; April 1 – Maundy Thursday; April 2 – Good Friday
Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog, is spoken primarily in Metro Manila. [408] Filipino and English are used in government, education, print, broadcast media, and business, often with a third local language; [409] code-switching between English and other local languages, notably Tagalog, is common. [410]
Along with garlic, onion is a staple in Filipino cuisine, being used as a base in many dishes. [5] It is a seasonal crop, growing between the rainy months of September and December. Meanwhile, its harvest season begins as early as December and ends in June. [6] The Philippines consumes an average of 17,000 metric tons of onion per month. [7]
The Philippines is a typhoon-prone country, with approximately 20 typhoons entering its area of responsibility each year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the West Philippine Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
Philippine Standard Time: April 12, 1954 – June 30, 1954 GMT+09:00: Philippine Daylight Saving Time: July 1, 1954 – March 21, 1978 GMT/UTC+08:00 [note 3] Philippine Standard Time: March 22, 1978 – September 20, 1978 UTC+09:00: Philippine Daylight Saving Time: September 21, 1978 – May 20, 1990 UTC+08:00: Philippine Standard Time
As part of the worldwide Catholic Church, the Catholic Church in the Philippines (Filipino: Simbahang Katolika sa Pilipinas, Spanish: Iglesia católica en Filipinas), or the Philippine Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.
Firefly is a 2023 Philippine fantasy film written by Angeli Atienza and directed by Zig Dulay. The film stars Alessandra De Rossi and Euwenn Mikaell in his theatrical debut. It was one of the entries in the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival, where it won as Best Picture.