Category Archives: International

Binibining Pilipinas To Open Beauty Pageants To Transgender Filipino Women

FF0B4139-713D-48BF-900B-D9F87E819DA7.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – History has just been made when Spain crowned a transgender woman as its representative to this year’s Miss Universe Beauty Pageant.

The new Miss Spain will be the very first transgender woman to enter the international beauty pageant. (Previously, a transgender woman joined the Miss Canada pageant but failed to win the much-coveted crown.)

Today, Binibining Pilipinas Charities which holds the franchise for many of the country’s beauty pageants, announced that beginning next year, it will accept candidates from the LGBT community, more particularly transgender women.

Move over, Pia Wurtzbach and Catriona Gray!

Gilas Pilipinas: Duterte Responds To Robredo

3F13E0DD-2726-4015-B910-4A3E52F36D0CMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Malacañang has issued the following statement from President Rodrigo Duterte in response to a statement by Vice President Leni Robredo regarding the brawl between Gilas Pilipinas and the Australian Boomers.

 

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Pope Francis Issues New Encyclical On Marriage

A23AC9E1-B738-40C2-A4B5-4C6A2E922EAATHE VATICAN (The Adobo Chronicles, Rome Bureau) – Saying that heterosexuality is simply a lifestyle, Pope Francis today released a new encyclical that redefines the Catholic Church’s dogma on marriage.

A papal encyclical is one of the highest forms of communication by the Pope and usually deals with some aspect of Catholic teaching — clarifying, amplifying, condemning or promoting one or a number of issues.

The Pope’s new message strikes down centuries-old Church teaching that marriage is only between a man and a woman.   In the Philippines, the issue is being challenged in the Supreme Court. 

Many who are opposed to same-sex marriage say that homosexuality is a lifestyle that could not be made the basis for the Church union between two men or two women.

But with Pope Francis’ declaration that heterosexuality is also just a lifestyle, the impediment to same-sex marriage will no longer exist.