MANILA, Philippines -- Pro-democracy protesters in the Philippines Saturday marked the anniversary of the 1986 army-backed "people power" revolt with the son of the dictator, who was ousted in that ...

We’ll talk to historian John Schmidt about President Ferdinand Marcos’s fall from power in the Philippines. In 1972, he declared martial law and began rule as a dictator. Marcos would order the ...

The People Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986, was a series of popular nonviolent revolutions and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the ...

Thirty-six years ago, the People Power Revolution in the Philippines toppled a dictator. The predominantly Catholic nation believes that what happened in 1986 was a miracle wrought through the ...

It was a revolution like no other. Instead of guns, there were prayers; instead of bloodshed, celebrations; instead of casualties, converts. Other countries may erupt into violent civil war at a ...

“The full moon rose last night on a Philippines blown inside out by an act of rebellion. At the gates of two of Manila’s military camps, the people are guarding the soldiers.” That was me, writing as ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pro-democracy protesters in the Philippines marked the anniversary on Saturday of the 1986 army-backed “people power” revolt with the son of the dictator, who was ousted in that ...

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines has urged youth in the Catholic-majority nation to continue advocating for social change while seeking out truth, drawing lessons from the People Power Revolution.

In 1985, after 20 years of holding near absolute power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos called for snap elections a year before his term was set to end in hopes it would ease foreign pressure ...

I think it was Anthony Spaeth, correspondent of Time magazine during the 1986 Philippine revolution, who said Filipinos love freedom so much that they preferred it over a fuller rice bowl. Such is the ...

It was one of the most tense and terrifying times in our country. It was like the tremulous gloom of wartime, our elders said. February 1986 was turbulent and stressful. Because he could no longer run ...