Push Admin

Balangiga bells arrive in Eastern Samar, another step closer to home

Article (news)

ABS-CBN News

MANILA - The Balangiga bells on Friday were brought to Eastern Samar ahead of its formal turnover to the parish church it originally belonged to more than a century ago.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/11/18/balangiga-bells-back-in-philippines-after-117-years">Balangiga Bells back in Philippines after 117 years</a></li></ul>balangiga-bells-back-in-philippines-after-117-yearsThe C-130 plane carrying the bells landed in the town of Guiuan around 10:30 a.m. The bells will be carted off to the Balangiga municipality by land, which will take 2 hours.President Rodrigo Duterte, who during his State of the Nation Address last year sought the return of the bells taken by American soldiers as war booty in 1901, will grace the turnover ceremony on Saturday but <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/13/18/duterte-to-skip-catholic-mass-for-balangiga-bells-homecoming" target="_blank">will not attend</a> the Catholic mass.

The Balangiga bells on Friday were brought to Eastern Samar ahead of its formal turnover to the parish church it originally belonged to more than a century ago.

The Balangiga bells on Friday were brought to Eastern Samar ahead of its formal turnover to the parish church it originally belonged to more than a century ago.