{"id":309,"date":"2009-08-12T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-08-12T06:34:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:34:14","slug":"consulate-and-filipino-community-mourn-the-passing-of-former-president-corazon-aquino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Consulate and Filipino Community mourn the passing of former president Corazon Aquino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney held a Mass for the repose of the late former Philippine President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, who passed away on 1 August 2009, Saturday, 5:18 a.m. AEST. The Mass was attended by leaders and members of the Philippine-Australian Community of New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Corazon Aquino, the 11th president of the Philippines (1986 to 1991), was 76\u00a0years old. She had been suffering from colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNews of President Aquino\u2019s demise came to Australians almost immediately after it was announced. The news was sent through telephone calls, e-mail and SMS messages by Filipinos in the Philippines who informed their relatives and friends in Australia. Within a few hours, many Filipinos in Australia knew about it,\u201d said Consul General Eva G. Betita.<\/p>\n<p>By the evening of 1 August, Filipino priests throughout New South Wales were offering Masses for the former President. Australians and immigrant communities expressed their sympathies to Filipinos for the loss of whom they regard was a great and admirable leader.<\/p>\n<p>Consul General Betita said the Consulate has opened a Book of Condolence, which officials of the Australian Government and the Consular Corps of Sydney, as well as leaders and members of the Filipino-Australian Community, may sign and write their messages of sympathy. The Condolence Book was opened on 3 August and will remain open until 10 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney held a Mass for the repose of the late former Philippine President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, who passed away on 1 August 2009, Saturday, 5:18 a.m. AEST. The Mass was attended by leaders and members of the Philippine-Australian Community of New South Wales. Corazon Aquino, the 11th president of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}