An American Maryknoll missionary in the Philippines for the last 52 years is set to return to his home country on January 29. Father James H. Kroeger is the last Maryknoll missionary working in the Philippines to leave the southeast country.
Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila tested positive of COVID-19, two days after a religious congregation in the Philippine capital announced that 62 of its nuns were positive of the disease.
At least 62 nuns in a convent of the Religious of the Virgin Mary congregation in Quezon City in the Philippine capital have been found positive of COVID-19.
The Bishops of the Philippines offered a pastoral message to resist with courage, stand up for God and bear witness to truth amid the prevailing culture of murder and plunder.
Catholic Church leaders in three archdioceses in the Philippines condemned what they described as “a murderous and corrupt public order” in the country.
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A Catholic bishop in the southern Philippines announced 40 days of fasting and penitence as the country continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.
Philippine Catholic bishops congratulated the country’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, not only for her victory but for her show of faith and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Catholics in Myanmar, including Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon, expressed their gratitude to the Church in the Philippines for showing “solidarity” with the beleaguered country.
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan was elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on July 8 during the conference’s online plenary assembly.
Philippine Catholic Church leaders called on the faithful to pray for the speedy recovery of Pope Francis who underwent a scheduled surgery for colon diverticulitis on Sunday, July 4.
Cardinal Jose Advincula, new archbishop of Manila, led Church leaders in offering prayers for the country’s former president, Benigno Aquino III, who died on June 24.