MEMBERS of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) refused to issue a statement calling for the resignation of Chief Justice Renato Corona, who is now under trial for graft and corruption, among other offenses.
AN official of the Catholic Church in the Philippines said Monday boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao has been asked to follow in the footsteps of NFL hero Tim Tebow and become a “bible ambassador.”
WHILE the country’s poverty rate dropped at the end of 2011, the number of Filipinos who experienced hunger went up during the same period, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in its latest survey.
LOCAL governments in Metro Manila have less than a year to comply fully with the ban on the use of plastics and styrofoam in the packaging and handling of items and food products in all establishments, markets and sari-sari stores, the Metro Manila Development Authority has said.
HUNDREDS of church goers at the Cathedral of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage in Antipolo City bade farewell Sunday to the replica of the image of Sto. Niño de Cebu, which toured the city for about a week.
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Mines and Geosciences Bureau (DENR-MGB) is pushing for the monitoring and control of small-scale mining to help raise compliance with regulations and contribution to the country’s economy.
PRIESTS hearing confessions need to replace any negative or aggressive attitudes with meekness and mercy toward the penitent, said a Vatican expert on confession.
THE Christian media has welcomed the Punjab assembly’s decision overturn a ban on musical concerts in schools and colleges across the province just days after it outlawed them.
MORE than 200 activists and Protestants from Taman Yasmin in Bogor, West Java, gathered outside the presidential palace in Jakarta yesterday to urge President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to return to them “their rights as citizens to worship.”
ABOUT 500 people attended a rally and discussion meeting yesterday at Khagrachhari in the southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to mark World Leprosy Day.
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