{"id":7804,"date":"2021-12-25T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/philippines-celebrates-subdued-christmas-after-deadly-typhoon"},"modified":"2021-12-25T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T17:56:24","slug":"philippines-celebrates-subdued-christmas-after-deadly-typhoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/philippines-celebrates-subdued-christmas-after-deadly-typhoon","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Celebrates Subdued Christmas After Deadly Typhoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines have been marking Christmas without homes, adequate food and water, electricity and mobile connections following a deadly typhoon.<\/p>\n<p>The typhoon last week left at least 375 people dead and devastated mostly central island provinces.<\/p>\n<p>More than 371,000 houses were either damaged or blown away in the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Before Typhoon Rai hit on 16 December, millions of people were trooping back to shopping centres, public parks and churches after an alarming spike in Covid infections in September eased considerably in recent weeks, with more vaccinations and lighter quarantine restrictions keeping Omicron cases in the country to just three so far.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Arthur Yap, of the hard-hit Bohol province where more than 100 people died in the typhoon and about 150,000 houses were either blown away or damaged, asked foreign aid agencies to help provide temporary shelters and water filtration systems to supplement Philippine government aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI refuse to believe that there\u2019s no Christmas spirit today among our people. They\u2019re conservative Catholics. But it\u2019s obviously very muted. There is overwhelming fear, there are no gifts, there were no Christmas Eve dinners, there is none of that today,\u201d Mr Yap said.<\/p>\n<p>The country is home to Asia\u2019s largest Roman Catholic population.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yap said he was happy that many Filipinos could celebrate Christmas more safely after Covid cases dropped, but he pleaded: \u201cPlease don\u2019t forget us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Manila, which was not hit by the typhoon, Filipino Catholics were relieved to be able to return to churches on Christmas on Saturday, although only a fraction were allowed inside and worshippers were required to wear masks and stand at a safe distance from each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines have been marking Christmas without homes, adequate food and water, electricity and mobile connections following a deadly typhoon. The typhoon last week left at least 375 people dead and devastated mostly central island provinces. 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