The Philippines. The islands were dubbed " the Philippines " after King Philip 2 of Spain. Pope John Paul the II. In 1995 Pope John Paul the II offered a mass to about 5 million Filipinos, at Lucenata Park in Manila. The event went into the Guiness Book of Records as the biggest Papal crowd at the time. SMS Text Messages. In 2009 approximately 1.4 Billion Text … [Read more...]