A powerful explosion believed caused by a bomb ripped through a Catholic Mass and killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others Sunday in a predominantly Muslim city in the southern ...

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THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has identified seven individuals who have sacrificed their lives ...

These Easter congregants are taking their Good Friday celebration back to the New Testament. After a three-year hiatus due to COVID, a controversial Good Friday tradition has been resurrected. Eight ...

Philippine officials have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate to safer ground and prohibited fishermen from venturing out to sea in an east-central region as a typhoon approached ...

Learning from past presidential elections, many Filipino politicians have engaged in disinformation campaigns against their opponents and critics to serve their interests. Paid trolls on social media ...

What can American people of faith do in the midst of the kind of global catastrophe that has devastated the eastern coast of the Philippines? Give generously to relief organizations. But you know that ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. takes part in a video call with outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru at the Malacañang Palace in Manila, Philippines, ...

That the Philippines is the only Christian nation in Asia is a claim widely rehearsed in and about Philippine society. It is, for one, often found in media commentaries about Filipinos and their ...

A week or so ago, the Pew Research Center published a survey on “religious nationalism.” It is an unwieldy term, as the researchers admitted, but Pew did its best to simplify it. In the Philippines, ...

I was educated in Catholic schools most of my life, all the way up to my sophomore year in college, and had my fair share of ...