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The Obando Fertility Rites and Dance monument in front of the town hall of Obando, Bulacan.. The Obando Fertility Rites [1] are a dance ritual, Anitist in origin, that later became a Catholic festival celebrated every May in Obando, Bulacan, Philippines.
In addition, the total fertility rate for the richest quintile of the population is 2.0, which is about one third the TFR of the poorest quintile (5.9 children per woman). The TFR for women with college education is 2.3, about half that of women with only an elementary education (4.5 children per woman). [24]
The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
Sulibao (right) on a 2016 stamp sheet of the Philippines. A solibao is a conical tenor drum played by the Bontoc and Ibaloi people of the Philippines.It is played with the palms of both hands.
During World War II, the department was reorganized once again through the Japanese's Military Order No. 2 in February 1942, splitting the department into the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Public Instruction. Under the Japanese, the teaching of Tagalog, Philippine history, and character education was given priority.
About 81% of the population is Catholic, 11% belong to Protestant or other Christian denominations, 5.6% are Muslim, and about 2% practice other religions or are irreligious. [3] Filipinos at home set up altars in the Hispanic tradition adorned with Catholic images, flowers, and candles.
Shishkova, 52, and Naumov, 55, won the pairs event at the 1994 World Championship and had been living in the U.S. since 1998 following their retirement from competitive skating, according to Tass.
In the Philippines, drum and lyre corps is a marching ensemble consisting of strictly percussion instruments and a color guard section. The drum and lyre corps originated in the Philippines, as an economical alternative to regular brass bands or drum and bugle corps.