Herminhilda del Rosario poses for a picture with a realistic pet plushie of her departed dog Luna, at her home in Hagonoy town, Bulacan province, Philippines on March 16, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Realistic pet plushies are displayed at the Pampanga Teddy Bear Factory, in Angeles City, Pampanga province, Philippines on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A worker paints the face of a realistic pet plushie, at the Pampanga Teddy Bear Factory, in Angeles City, Pampanga province, Philippines on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A worker paints the mouth of a realistic pet plushie, at the Pampanga Teddy Bear Factory, in Angeles City, Pampanga province, Philippines on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Jaja Lazarte poses for a picture with the realistic pet plushie of her departed dog Kenken and her two other dogs, at her home in Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Workers make customized pet plushies and clothing, at the Pampanga Teddy Bear Factory, in Angeles City, Pampanga province, Philippines on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Jaja Lazarte holds the realistic pet plushie of her departed dog Kenken as she poses for a photo with her two other dogs, at her home in Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A dog runs with its pet owner during a charity race, in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines on March 18, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A woman uses a manual water pump at a slum area in Muntinlupa, Philippines on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A girl takes a bath near a manual water pump at a slum area in Muntinlupa, Philippines, March 21, 2023. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A Filipino Muslims read the Quran inside a mosque on the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Marikina, Philippines on Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Police Regional Office Cordillera RPIO, policemen inspect tea bags containing suspected methamphetamine during a raid at a house in Baguio city, northern Philippines on Wednesday March 29, 2023. Philippine police seized more than 500 kilograms (more than half a ton) of suspected methamphetamine concealed in tea bags Wednesday and arrested a suspected Chinese drug dealer in a northern mountain resort city, police officials said. (Phoot by Police Regional Office Cordillera RPIO via AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine Coast Guard personnel search for survivors from the fire on MV Lady Mary Joy at Basilan, southern Philippines early Thursday March 30, 2023. More than a dozen people died while other were reported missing after an inter-island cargo and passenger ferry with about 200 passengers and crew onboard caught fire close to midnight in the southern Philippines, a provincial governor said Thursday. (Photo by Philippine Coast Guard via AP Photo)





A US soldier (R) supervises as a Philippine soldier fires an AT4 84mm anti-tank round during a joint army-to-army exercise between the Philippines and the US at Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija province on March 31, 2023. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)





Filipino Catholics wave their palm fronds for blessing during a Palm Sunday mass at the Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo City, Rizal province, Philippines on April 2, 2023. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A child gives water to an activist strapped on a wooden cross with the mock flag of the United States and China as they reenact the sufferings of Jesus Christ during a holy week protest in Manila, Philippines on Monday April 3, 2023. The group gathered to raise awareness of the hardships people are suffering as Holy Week begins in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Hooded Filipino flagellants pray as part of Maundy Thursday rituals to atone for sins or fulfill vows for an answered prayer on April 6, 2023 at Mandaluyong city, Philippines. COVID restrictions the past years have prevented crowds and devotees in participating in bizarre lenten rituals, a practice which have been opposed by the church in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Customers at a coffee shop watch as Filipino Catholic devotees perform self-flagellation along a street on Maundy Thursday in Manila, Philippines on April 6, 2023. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Customers at a coffee shop watch as Filipino Catholic devotees perform self-flagellation along a street on Maundy Thursday in Manila, Philippines on April 6, 2023. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Wilfredo Salvador, center, and two actors stay on crosses during a reenactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings as part of Good Friday rituals April 7, 2023 in the village of San Pedro, Cutud, Pampanga province, northern Philippines. The real-life crucifixions, a gory Good Friday tradition that is rejected by the Catholic church, resumes in this farming village after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.(Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)