MANILA, Philippines — Bohol is not just a destination. It is the country's only United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-inscribed global geopark.

3 Residents stay in makeshift shelters near the rubble of the centuries-old Our Lady of Light church in Loon, Bohol, a day after an earthquake, Philippines, Oct. 16, 2013.

MANILA, Philippines – With 20 people dead and a centuries-old church reduced to rubble, Loon town was the hardest-hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Bohol on Tuesday morning, Governor ...

Jacinto Mandal, the police chief of Loon, Bohol, was at work at the police station when the temblor struck. Rushing outside, he saw people spilling out of their homes onto the streets, screaming. They ...

LOON, Bohol, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III was back in Bohol but chose to visit evacuees in Loon town instead of the adjacent town of Marijoboc whose chief executive was under fire ...

The shaking severely damaged parts of Bohol Island and Cebu Island to the north. Ports, schools and airports reported damage, and a hospital collapsed on Bohol in Loon, killing at least 18 people.

LOON, BOHOL , Philippines — The Bohol Provincial Board has recently dismissed a petition to lift the suspension of the municipal scholarship program imposed by Loon Mayor Lloyd Peter Lopez due ...

A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck in the central Philippines on Tuesday morning, ... The centuries-old churches of Baclayon, Loon and Dauis, also in Bohol, sustained significant damage, ...

Bohol is not just a destination. It is the country's only United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-inscribed global geopark. So it is not surprising that it was hailed ...