PHILIPPINE bishops warned the government over the weekend that “contracepting” the present generation to the point of “aborting the next generation” will cause problems in the future.
A FILIPINO Protestant bishop has warned that religion, particularly Christianity, may become irrelevant if Church people fail to live by its tenets.
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III praised the role of the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST), in educating Filipinos during celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of Asia’s oldest university.
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are urging local governments across the country to follow the lead of the southern province of South Cotabato and enact laws banning open-pit mining.
FILIPINOS offered prayers, candles and flowers during a memorial service on Friday for victims of two tragedies that struck Manila’s financial district this week.
A FORMER head of the Catholic Church’s military ordinariate or diocese has echoed allegations of the so-called “pabaon” or practice of giving millions of pesos as going-away presents to retiring chiefs of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
AS clashes between anti-government protesters and Egyptian police intensified on Jan. 28, some Coptic Orthodox Christians disregarded their church’s call for peaceful non-involvement – in hopes that the possible abdication of President Hosni Mubarak could advance the cause of their freedom.
Buying used items no longer has the stigma it once did. In fact, it’s acquired a green stamp of approval as part of the “Reduce, reuse, recycle” trilogy.
THE uproar over the latest sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has found Vatican and other church leaders mostly keeping mum, hesitant to be perceived as meddling in politics.
TAIWAN president Ma Ying-jeou has told the pope about his efforts for peace through promoting cross-straits religious exchanges with mainland China in response to the pope’s message for the World Day of Peace for 2011.
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