Tag: Catholic News
Philippine faith-based aid agencies call for ‘paradigm shift’ in humanitarian response
Pandemic has allowed local churches and dioceses to develop their own responses to assist poor communities without or with less aid from the outside
Controversy over site of celebration of Philippines’ first Catholic Mass resolved
Commission finds first Mass was held on the island of Limasawa in the central Philippines
Pope Francis calls on people to seek ‘cure’ for social injustice
There are only two ways the human family can emerge from the crisis: Either we come out of it better, or we come out of it worse, pope says
Manila Catholic bishop asks authorities to allow more people to attend...
Restaurants are allowed up to 30 percent of their capacity while churches are only allowed ten percent
Philippine Catholic bishops call for end to ‘coronavirus stigma’
Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila likened the new coronavirus disease with leprosy at the time of Jesus
Local civil society groups need more support during times of crisis,...
With COVID-19 the international humanitarian system is being tested like never before, the Church’s social service arm says
Human rights activist slain in central Philippines knew her life was...
Zara Alvarez was the 13th human rights worker under the group Karapatan killed since July 2016
Italian woman claims Virgin Mary foretold coronavirus pandemic
Most of her messages are about the coming of the end of times, predictions of earthquakes, pestilences, and wars
Cardinal Bo calls for ‘one military’ as Myanmar’s armed groups hold...
Military must also gradually come under the authority of a democratically accountable elected president, the cardinal says
Mary’s Assumption a ‘giant leap forward of mankind,’ pope says
Through Mary’s Assumption into Heaven, one sees life’s end goal not to gain the things here below but patrimony above, pope says
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