MANILA, Philippines — The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) yesterday appealed to relatives of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) working in Syria to encourage them to go back to the country and avail of the mandatory repatriation offered by the government due to that country’s situation. The OWWA is offering the “Libreng Tawag sa Syria” to families who want to call OFWs in Syria to ...

The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new life Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a shelter in a gritty corner of Paris, are distributing sheets and sleeping ...

The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new life Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a shelter in a gritty corner of Paris, are distributing sheets and sleeping ...