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Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (CCCI), under the chairmanship of Dr. Edward S. Gaisano, CCCI vice president for business development, in cooperation with the newly organized Spa and Wellness Association of Cebu (SWAC) will hold the 2nd Beauty, Health, and Wellness (BHW) Show on Sept. 22-24.

With the theme, “NOW Cebu!”, the show aims to proclaim Cebu as the emerging nirvana of wellness. During the three day event, beauty, health, and wellness industry players will converge at SM City Cebu Trade Hall to showcase their products and services

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Today, standing beside a Cebu City fire department station is a simple cross. It is all that remained of one of the richest churches in the 19th century Philippines.

Destroyed not by war or natural disaster, the exquisite Parian parish church was demolished in an act of vengeance aimed directly at Cebu’s powerful Chinese mestizo community.

In 1849, after two decades of conflict, the Spanish governor general ordered the suppression of the Parian parish and the destruction of its church.

Thirty years later the Spanish bishop of Cebu carried out that order and the church was disassembled stone by stone-a unique event in Philippine ecclesiastical history and, perhaps, even in the history of Christendom.

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