Father Ulep urged the audience to contemplate the societal frameworks that enable the epidemic of poverty-related deaths and to embrace the discomfort they cause.
“This started our life on the farm. It was not easy. We had no constitution to follow—only a common vision, not even a mission to talk about. Just to live the vows and farm," Sis. Emma M. Alday.
After more than a decade of helping students have their own means of transportation to school, he calls for prayers for his daughter Alexa, who is fighting leukemia.
The tower of a church that got destroyed and buried by volcanic eruptions is frequented by visitors in Albay, a province more than 400 kilometers southeast of Manila.
“Farm has become a place for mission and vision, a place where anyone who visits can encounter God, nature, and others,“ said Fr. Samuel Naceno-Agcaracar
“This is a call. God puts me where He wants me to be,” Mantuhac-Barino said. “Like Mary, I wish to say, ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord; may it be done to me according to His will.’”
“Meeting the Pope makes you want to cry”, this is how Anna Marco, a real estate consultant, described the indelible memories she had in an extraordinary encounter with Pope John Paul II in 1995, who later became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
Today there are over 300,000 Brazilians living in Japan, mainly as workers in factories. They came from various corners of the enormous country. In their midst, I find meaning in my ministry today as a Divine Word missionary.
Fr. De Jesus said “We also integrate awareness of care for the earth in every activity we do. We showcase a food forest in the Hermitage [and] practice a lifestyle of permaculture.”
Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) Social Media Coordinator Cindy Gorospe, a young Filipino, said the Vatican Dicastery for Communication's training program enhanced her media ministry viewpoint.
The Quezon City Government, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Our Lady of the Rosary of La Naval as patroness of Quezon City, Philippines, has promulgated a new resolution designating October as the commemorative month.