The Philippine government has canceled the “permanent resident” visa of a Dutch Catholic missionary and ordered him to leave the country over his alleged involvement in “illegal political activities.”
Human rights and activist groups raised alarm over a police “rescue operation” of tribal students from a Church-run university in the central Philippines on Monday, February 15.
A Catholic priest said the reported decline in the number of Filipino couples getting married might be due to a growing fear of a life-long commitment.
Despite health warnings, hundreds of thousands of Filipino Catholics went out of their homes in Manila on Jan. 9, to venerate a centuries-old wooden statue of the Black Nazarene.
The head of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines called on the country’s police officers to be “true” to the service and to face criminality not just with courage but also with faith.
Churches in the Philippines are preparing to welcome Christmas under the “new normal” by tweaking traditions to comply with health guidelines during the pandemic.
Mental health aid should be included in all disaster response activities and plans. This was the call made by the general manager of Church-run Radio Veritas Asia in the wake of the series of disasters that displaced thousands of people in the northern part of the Philippines in recent weeks.
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Philippines has named Father Gerry delos Reyes, a missionary assigned in Thailand for years, as its new provincial superior in the country.
Church leaders in the Philippines have expressed their opposition to a proposal in the country’s Congress to declare as “special non-working holiday” the birth anniversary of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Archbishop Oscar Cruz, former president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and retired prelate of Lingayen-Dagupan, died on Wednesday, August 26, at the age of 85.
Catholic church leaders in the Philippines appealed to the faithful to put an end to the discrimination against people who are infected with the new coronavirus.
Catholic church leaders in the Philippines urged the faithful, especially church institutions, to respond to the coronavirus pandemic “with the eyes of faith, with the heart of charity, and with the armor of truth.”
All public celebrations of religious rituals and activities will be suspended in the Archdiocese of Manila from August 3 to 14 as a response to calls made by the country’s medical professionals to implement stricter quarantine measures against the new coronavirus disease.
Father Teresito “Chito” Soganub, the priest who was abducted by terrorist gunmen in the southern Philippine city of Marawi in 2017, died on Wednesday, July 22, due to cardiac arrest.
