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The Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish - Kamuning is a Catholic parish in the Kamuning District of Quezon City in the Philippines. It was established on... October 3, 1941. The parish has been in the pastoral care and administration of the Society of the Divine Word since even before its founding. Kamuning was a government housing project of then Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel Luis Quezon. Kamuning was known then as Barrio Obrero II. The Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish parish center is located at the intersection of Scout Ybardolaza Street, Scout Fuentebella Street and Scout Fernandez Street. It is just a stone's throw away from the GMA Network broadcast center along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue and a short distance from the ABS-CBN broadcast center complex along Sgt. Esguerra Avenue . The parish is part of the Diocese of Cubao. The current Parish Priest is the Very Reverend Father Jerome Marquez, SVD, who also serves as the Vice-Provincial of the Philippine Central Province of the Society of the Divine Word. His assistant priests are Father Benigno Beltran, SVD, and Father Lino Nicasio, SVD.
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Loren Legarda is a Filipino broadcast journalist, environmentalist, and politician of Visayan ancestry, notable as the only female to top two... senatorial elections . During the 2004 Philippine general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as an Independent with Fernando Poe, Jr. as running mate and again during the 2010 Philippine presidential election, for the same position as a member of the NPC with Manny Villar. She is considered as one of the five most influential women in the Philippines. Legarda is a notable advocate of Climate Change Awareness and has numerous achievements in the fields of social development and human rights advocacy along with her work in journalism. As a journalist, she has received many awards. In 2008, she was chosen as "United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Asia Pacific Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation". She was a member of the Philippine delegation during the 2009 Copenhagen Summit.
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Maria Cielito Lukban Fernandez , also known as Pops Fernandez, is a Filipino singer and actress. She is dubbed the "Concert Queen." Fernandez began... her music career at age 16 when she signed a contract with OctoArts Records in 1981. In 1982, Fernandez released her first album and co-hosted the Philippine television series Penthouse Live! with Martin Nievera. She became a popular celebrity in the Philippines. She has appeared on the covers of several Philippine magazines. In 1996, Fernandez joined the cast of another television program ASAP together with her former husband Martin Nievera, along with Dayanara Torres and Ariel Rivera. Fernandez was awarded the Best Female Musical Variety Show Host at the Philippine KBP Golden Dove Awards in 1999. She has also toured the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Guam, and Italy promoting her music to Philippine audiences. She also released her album Shindig Live in 2001.
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Janella Denise Yuson Guevara is a Filipina child actress. She rose to fame through her appearance on a talent search on television called... StarStruck Kids that aired on the Filipino television channel GMA 7. Although she did not go on to win the said competition, she has since gone on to make several television and film appearances, mostly on GMA Network and has proven her worth as a child actress when she won as best child actress 5 times in a row, making her one of the most popular child actresses in the Philippines.
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Arthur Bernard Dolino Lui Pio is a solo-artist and former guitarist and vocalist of the now-disbanded band Hale. He is publicly recognized by the... name "Champ" or "Champ Lui-Pio". Arthur was born on February 8, 1982 in Quezon City, Philippines. During his youth, he was enrolled in Marymount School and then took up Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde. He has a sibling named Christian Lui-Pio, who was featured in Hale's music video of their single Kahit Pa and nominated winner of MYX VJ Search 2008. Arthur is also the son of a widely-respected musician Nonoy Tan of the former band Wadab in the 1980s. In 2004, Champ joined Hale as guitarist and vocalist. As a group, the band managed to spawn 4 mainstream albums and 18 mainstream singles, together with 2 jingles meant to promote Nescafé and Close-Up. He also helped established the Treehouse Productions whose sole purpose is to help the needy children suffering from mental and physical illnesses through music. Other musical acts eventually signed up for Treehouse Productions to help achieve the band's purpose and objectives.
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Judy Anne Lumagui Santos-Agoncillo , popularly known as Judy Ann Santos or Juday/Judai, is an award-winning Filipina film and television actress,... product endorser, recording artist, and film producer. She is dubbed as Young Superstar and Queen of Philippine Soap Opera and Teleserye. She began working as a child actress and has appeared in more than 60 movies, winning 13 Best Actress awards to date in the Drama, Fantasy, Horror, and Comedy genres. She has also acted in numerous television series including Mara Clara and Basta't Kasama Kita. Santos was discovered at the age of eight, when she passed the audition for Regal Films' Kaming Mga Ulila, a project that became a TV series instead for GMA. Santos's first title role is on IBC-13's Ula, Ang Batang Gubat before forging a long-running television career with ABS-CBN.
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Maria Izadora Ussher Calzado is a Filipina actress, TV host and model, who previously worked as one of GMA-7's homegrown contract artists. After ten... years, Iza signed an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN. Iza also signed a non-exclusive contract with Star Cinema. Born Maria Izadora Ussher Calzado, she was named after the dancer, Isadora Duncan. Her father is choreographer and TV director Lito Calzado and her mother was Irish-Spanish-Filipina, Mary Ann Ussher. Calzado 's brother, Dash Calzado, is a member of Legit Misfitz, a Pinoy rap group. In the late 1990s, she finished high school in Miriam College and then completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. Before entering show business, she worked as a dubber for a Mexicanovela. Calzado started out as a guest teen star in the show, Click, which led to further roles. She participated in the drama Kung Mawawala Ka as the soap's villain Phoebe Valiente and starred in her first soap opera in Te Amo: Maging Sino Ka Man. She played the role of Amihan the Queen of goddesses in Encantadia.She also starred in Moments of Love, wherein she played the role of Divina Buenacer.
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Janella Denise Yuson Guevara is a Filipina child actress. She rose to fame through her appearance on a talent search on television called... StarStruck Kids that aired on the Filipino television channel GMA 7. Although she did not go on to win the said competition, she has since gone on to make several television and film appearances, mostly on GMA Network and has proven her worth as a child actress when she won as best child actress 5 times in a row, making her one of the most popular child actresses in the Philippines.
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Cynthia Kristina Kurleto is a model, actress, and a former MTV VJ in the Philippines. Her father is Austrian. She is known for being a commercial... model and an FHM model in the Philippines and also for playing the role of Cassiopea in the hit series Encantadia and its prequel/sequel Etheria. The daughter of Faustina Verdillo and Friedrich Kurleto, following her parents' divorce she was taken care of by her mother in Austria where she grew up. Cindy finished her education from elementary to college and took a Hotel and Restaurant Management course. She later became a waitress. In 2001, she left her job and decided to take a vacation in her other home country, the Philippines. She sold her car and apartment, quit her job, bought a ticket, packed one suitcase and left for the Philippines. Long after arriving, she decided to settle in Legazpi City, Albay for good. It was during her hosting stint at a local ABS-CBN show in Legazpi that she was spotted by a talent scout and offered to do modelling jobs in Manila. Her first movie was Jerry Lopez Sineneng's Ngayong Nandito Ka with Kristine Hermosa, Jericho Rosales and Onemig Bondoc .
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Iza Calzado is a Filipina actress, TV host, performer and model, who previously worked as one of GMA-7's homegrown contract artists. After ten... years, Iza signed an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN. Iza also signed a non-exclusive contract with Star Cinema. Born Maria Izadora Ussher Calzado, she was named after the dancer, Isadora Duncan. Her father is choreographer and TV director Lito Calzado and her mother was Irish-Spanish-Filipina, Mary Ann Ussher. Calzado 's brother, Dash Calzado, is a member of Legit Misfitz, a Pinoy rap group. In the late 1990s, she finished high school in Miriam College and then completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. Before entering show business, she worked as a dubber for a Mexicanovela. Calzado started out as a guest teen star in the show, Click, which led to further roles. She participated in the drama Kung Mawawala Ka as the soap's villain Phoebe Valiente and starred in her first soap opera in Te Amo: Maging Sino Ka Man. She played the role of Amihan the Queen of goddesses in Encantadia.
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Abelardo Dennis Florencio Trillo Ho , more widely known as Dennis Trillo, is a Filipino award-winning actor, singer and fashion model. His film debut... was in Aishite Imasu 1941. He is currently an artist of GMA Network. In 2006, he won three Best Actor trophies. His career in entertainment started in 2000 at ABS-CBN, when he was introduced in the 10th batch of ABS-CBN's Star Circle . He was seen in the television soap opera Pangako Sayo & Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan where he played the confidante of one of the lead stars. He used to be in a rock band called Moyg. He transferred to GMA Network wherein he became one of its contract stars. He was cast in several television outings like Kahit Kailan, Twin Hearts and Love to Love. In 2004, he became one of the lead stars in the telefantasya Mulawin. He made his film debut in Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita, where he portrayed a cross-dressing spy for the Hukbalahap during the advent of the Japanese invasion in World War II.
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José Sixto Raphael González Dantes III, popularly known as Dingdong Dantes, is a television and film actor/director, host and print and... commercial model. Born on August 2, 1980 in Quezón City, Philippines, Dingdong is currently working as an exclusive talent of GMA Network He is the son of José Dantes, Jr. and Angeline González Dantes. Dantes began his career as a child model, appearing in a dairy product commercial when he was two years old. Several other commercials followed before he became part of an all-male dance group called Abztract Dancers, with his friend, actor Dino Guevarra, and his cousin, actor, Arthur Solinap. Their group became regulars on Eat Bulaga! and That's Entertainment. As an actor, his first movie appearance was in Shake, Rattle and Roll V in an episode titled "Anino". After three years, he debuted on GMA Network's youth-oriented T.G.I.S. when he was 17, under the name Raphael Dantes playing the role of Iñaki. He appeared in films like Honey My Love So Sweet and I'm Sorry My Love, and television programmes including Anna Karenina and did a few guesting stints on ABS-CBN such as a F.L.A.M.E.S.
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Kristine Hermosa-Sotto on September 9, 1983 in Quezon City, Philippines is a Filipina actress. She is well known for portraying the role of Yna... Macaspac in the primetime drama series, Pangako sa 'Yo. She is now a former talent of Star Magic and a contract artist of ABS-CBN. She is the second of four children in the family. Her mother is of Spanish descent and her father is Filipino. One of her siblings is actress Kathleen Hermosa. Hermosa went to Batino Elementary School. When her family moved to Laguna, she then enrolled at Colegio de San Pedro, San Pedro, Laguna near Pacita Complex to continue her remaining years in grade school and eventually her first year in high school. She then pursued her studies at ABS-CBN Learning Center after they moved back to Manila. On September 21, 2004, she had a marriage ceremony with Diether Ocampo, her co-star in Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas; however, the Court of Appeals, on January 30, 2009, upheld a lower court ruling that the marriage was null and void from the very start.
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