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Pinpointing the first Mass in the Philippines- UCA News
WEBMar 28, 2022 · Pinpointing the first Mass in the Philippines. Despite 500th anniversary celebrations recently, debate still rages as to where the event actually took place. Nuns read a marker that claims that the first Mass in the Philippines was held at a site in Butuan, a city in the southern Philippines. (Photo: Ben Serrano) By Jose Mario Bautista Maximiano.
Church hails Vatican nod for sainthood of Filipino teenager
WEBUpdated: March 22, 2024 05:57 AM GMT. Clergy, religious and laypeople in the Philippines have hailed the Vatican’s approval for the official beginning of the process for sainthood of a Filipino teenager, three decades after she died of an incurable heart disease. The Holy See has granted the "nihil obstat" (no objection) to begin the process ...
Italian court rules bishop 'facilitated' abuse by protecting priest
WEBUpdated: July 31, 2024 06:03 AM GMT. The bishop of a southern Italian diocese deliberately avoided protecting victims in his diocese and instead sought to protect a priest long accused of having abused several minors as a seminarian, a court in the southern Italian city of Enna ruled. The court July 24 published its "Statement of Reasons," an ...
Indonesian politician gets five-month sentence for hate speech
WEBApr 19, 2022 · An Indonesian court has sentenced a Christian politician to five months in prison for hate speech after he was found guilty of making insulting remarks about Islam on social media. Ferdinand Hutahaean, 56, a Protestant politician, was charged with hate speech for making offensive social media comments on religious, ethnic and racial issues.
Is the Filipino worth dying for? - UCA News
WEBApr 22, 2022 · He continued: “I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for because he is the nation’s greatest untapped resource.”. That was three years before he was assassinated. Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. didn’t know that Senator Aquino, his political ...
Korean Catholics warned over 'Naju' Marian apparition
WEBJan 5, 2024 · The Archdiocese of Gwangju in South Korea has issued a letter warning clergy, religious and laypeople to refrain from promoting devotion to a controversial Marian apparition not recognized by the church. The archdiocese also cautioned Catholics about ex-priest Alexander Kim Dae-sik who was expelled from the …
Filipinos mourn closure of iconic community newspaper
WEBJul 19, 2024 · The Filipino media fraternity has expressed pain over the closure of a leading community newspaper serving readers in Baguio city and its neighborhood in the northern Luzon region for the past 77 years. Baguio Midland Courier, founded in April 1947 by brothers Oseo and Sinai Hamada and their half-sister Cecilia Afable, will officially cease ...
Singapore Catholic Church News Updates - UCA News
WEBcatholic church news in Singapore, Singapore church news and updates, Trending community related article in catholic perspective, Find Singapore catholic Latest videos & Pictures with UCA News
Film on martyred priests makes waves in the Philippines
WEBJan 3, 2024 · Thousands in Catholic-majority Philippines have continued to flock to theaters to watch an award-winning film on three priests executed by the Spanish colonizers in the 19 th century. Released nationwide on Christmas Day, the historical biopic GomBurZa retells the story of three native Filipino priests – Mariano Gomez, 72; Jose Apolonio Burgos, 35; and Jacinto Zamora, 36. The film’s title ...
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