Filipino community pays tribute to respected leader

The Filipino community at St John’s Cathedral, Norwich gathered in numbers at a Requiem Mass to honour and pray for Ermie Astorga, a much-loved leader. Ermie’s given name was Herminio Astorga but he preferred to be called Ermie ‘Pogs’ Astorga. He was involved in the development of the Filipino civic group PINAS, which helps to serve... Read More

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October 10, 2020

Philippine archdiocese tackles pandemic woes by expanding food programme

A Philippine archdiocese has expanded a long-running food programme for poor people to prevent deeper turmoil from economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan in Pangasinan province, north of Manila, said it is looking to increase the number of people it feeds daily from 750 as part of its Rice Porridge for the Poor... Read More

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September 19, 2020

Philippine president faces calls to let health workers go abroad

Catholic bishops have called on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to lift a flight ban on Filipino health workers so that they can work abroad and provide for their families. Duterte banned health professionals from leaving the Philippines in April due to a “scarcity” of health workers in the country, reported ucanews.com. But Bishop Ruperto Santos... Read More

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April 2, 2020

Cardinal Tagle, in new position, looks for lessons learned in lockdown

Starting a new job always involves a learning curve, but Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle got much more than he bargained for when he moved to Rome in February to begin his duties as prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. Not only did he have a new position after being the archbishop... Read More

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June 5, 2019

Vatican names Filipino boy who died at 17 Servant of God

A Filipino teenager who died could be on his way to sainthood after the Vatican declared him a Servant of God, the first step in the process toward sainthood. The Congregation for Saints’ Causes gave the Diocese of Cubao, Philippines, the green light to look into the life of Darwin Ramos who died in 2012... Read More

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January 31, 2019

Influential Universe columnist urges Catholics to ‘save the children’

Influential Catholic Universe columnist and Irish missionary Fr Fr Shay Cullen is calling on Catholics to warn Filipino politicians against lowering the age of criminal liability in the Southeast Asian country. On Monday 4th February the Philippine Senate may decide whether to change the law and lower the age of criminal liability from 15 years... Read More

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January 4, 2019

Filipino bishop tells Catholics to ignore Duterte’s anti-Church tirades

A former head of the Philippines’ Catholic bishop’s conference, has called on people to ignore President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated rants against the Church. In his New Year message, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan said those who call God stupid and teach that it is useless to go to church are “anti-Christ,” ucanews.com reported. “Do not... Read More

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August 10, 2018

Filipino Catholic media urged to confront ‘fake news’

Filipinos working in the Church’s social communication ministry need a lot of prayer and a “sense of mission” to be able “to combat fake news” and work for peace, a gathering in Davao City was told this week. The head of the Philippine bishops’ Commission on Social Communications urged the gathering of Catholic media groups... Read More

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August 11, 2016

Philippine Church leaders feel powerless to stop extrajudicial killings

Philippine Catholic leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings that have come with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. “What I predicted is happening, and the Church is powerless to stop the killings,” Redemptorist Fr Amado Picardal, head of the Philippine bishops’ Commission for Basic Ecclesial Communities, told ucanews.com.... Read More

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