Why activists want to change divorce laws in the Philippines | DW News

"We want to be free." That's the message of an increasing number of women in the Philippines, who are trapped in marriages they cannot escape. That's because divorce is illegal in the Catholic majority country
The only other place in the world, where this is the case, is the Vatican.

TIL the size of Filipino diaspora is also how it's not unusual for people to practically separate from each other this way.