Tag: All Souls' Day

The groups said authorities must open military camps and secret detention centers for families searching for the disappeared

Since All Saints’ Day falls on a Wednesday this year, Francis will not hold his usual weekly general audience.

’On the feast of All Souls’ Day, though I light a candle in our veranda and offer a prayer for him, I also prepare my son’s favorite dish’

"Let’s face it, we have gotten pretty good at compromising with the Gospel,” the pope said in St. Peter’s Basilica on Nov. 2

Despite cultural differences, we share a common desire to memorialize the dead

The annual tradition that combines Catholic religious rites with the country’s penchant for festivity is popularly called ‘Undas’

The demand for candles has picked up as authorities relaxed health restrictions and allowed more people to visit their departed

The Vatican has granted a plenary indulgence to Catholics who visit a cemetery to pray for the dead on any day in the month of November

We always know deep within us that our beloved dead are “umalagad,” our loved ones have always served both in life and in death

An official tally shows more than 60,000 people have poured into the sprawling Manila North Cemetery over the past few days