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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

THE Philippines is a nation full of kind, generous, resilient and long-suffering people who, for centuries, have been misled by and burdened with the corruption and injustice committed by dynastic ...

Filipino Protestants gathered in downtown Manila’s gothic United Church last week to celebrate a milestone event: the commissioning of missionaries to foreign lands. The Rev. Jorge R. Quismundo, 29, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The newly elected pope, Leo XIV, previously visited the Philippines while he was still a priest. In a post on Friday, May 9, the Archdiocese of Cebu said that Pope Leo XIV, then ...