The Archdiocese of Pampanga on Tuesday recommended an indefinite lockdown on all of its heritage churches in the province a day after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck parts of Luzon.
A church worker walks past rubble of the 18th century St. Catherine of Alexandria after its bell tower was destroyed following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the town of Porac, Pampanga province on April 23, 2019. Philippine rescuers were scrambling April 23 to reach dozens of people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake, as the death toll climbed to 11. / AFP / TED ALJIBE