Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:42:17 +0000
Caritas Philippines, the Diocese of San Carlos and the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) want financial institutions to ensure that Church development funds are not invested in coal and other dirty-energy and extractive industries.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 21:28:33 +0000
A Catholic bishop on Thursday said the threats on the life of Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David were actually meant to “belittle the Church.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 07:53:01 +0000
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to prove his sincerity by engaging with critics “decently and responsibly.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:28:14 +0000
The United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference voted Tuesday to strengthen the faith’s divisive bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:51:31 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang is blaming the opposition and critics of President Rodrigo Duterte for politicizing the Chief Executive’s ‘hyperbolic’ statements, which led to death threats hurled at some members of the clergy.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:16:39 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Cardinals attending Pope Francis’ summit on preventing clergy sex abuse have called for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to punish bishops and religious superiors who fail to protect their flocks from predator priests.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:11:29 +0000
Malacañang is not offended by Pope Francis’ recent statement that those who denounce the Catholic Church are “friends, cousins and relatives of the devil.”
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:14:11 +0000
As the measles death toll reached 136 since Jan. 1, the Anakalusugan party-list group challenged the Department of Health (DOH) to account for how it spent its P7.43-billion budget for its immunization program in 2018.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:02:44 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis warned church leaders summoned Thursday to a landmark sex abuse prevention summit that the Catholic faithful are demanding more than just condemnation of the crimes of priests but concrete action to respond to the scandal.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:13:36 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis says that those who are constantly attacking the church are linked to the devil.
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