Topic: Philippines
Filipinos making their traditional All Saints' Day visits to cemeteries should watch out for fake priests offering to bless the dead for money, a senior bishop warned Tuesday.Security guards at cemeteries and people approached by these priests were advised to check their ...
A Italian Catholic priest was shot dead inside his church compound in the troubled southern Philippines on Monday, police said.An unknown gunman shot Fausto Tentorio in the remote farming town of Arakan on Mindanao island, police said.A "suspect suddenly appeared and without ...
MANILA (Reuters) - Maoist rebels Saturday demanded the release of at least five more detained guerrilla leaders before peace negotiations could resume with the Philippines government, the chief negotiator of the communist-led National Democratic Front said.Luis Jalandoni, a former Roman Catholic priest, ...
Marriage is losing its lustre for many in the Philippines, with an increasing number of couples starting families out of wedlock, the government census office said on Friday.More than 37 percent of the 1.78 million babies born in Asia's Roman Catholic outpost ...
Support for divorce is rising in the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines, the only territory where it is still banned aside from the Vatican, according to a nationwide survey released Thursday.Half of adult Filipinos surveyed by Social Weather Stations in March said estranged ...
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino pledged on Sunday to push for the passage of a reproductive health bill in Congress as a tool to fight poverty even at the risk of excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.Efforts to enact a ...
A blood-curdling scream echoes through the Roman Catholic chapel in Manila as Father Jose Francisco Syquia says a prayer of exorcism over a Satanic cult member believed to be possessed by the devil."It's very painful," the woman cries in an unearthly voice, ...
A Philippine priest has threatened to deny burial rights in cases where mourners at funerals are caught gambling, a tradition exploited by gaming syndicates who mount "fake" wakes.Father Valentine Dimoc of the Saint Mary Magdalene Parish said authorities in the northern town ...
MANILA (Reuters) - Nearly 2 million barefoot devotees, mostly in maroon shirts, thronged the streets of Manila on Sunday as a centuries old black statue of Jesus Christ, believed to have healing powers, was paraded through the old city.The wooden, life-sized Black ...
Pope Benedict XVI deplored Sunday the "absured violence" against Christians after attacks on churches in Nigeria and the Philippines over the Christmas holiday.88955865&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2010  AFP Global Edition
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