A southern Philippines bishop has urged the government to immediately resume peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) amid reports the rebel group is gearing up for war.
Ateneo de Cagayan opened in 1933 as a high school, which grew into a community college and eventually, on August 27, 1958, it was inaugurated as Xavier University.
Kidnap victim, Irish Columban Fr Michael Sinnott, has returned to the Philippines and says he wants to resume his missionary work.
An inter-faith center has opened in Mindanao in the country’s south, thanks to work by Korean religious leaders and funding from the Seoul government.
The center in Davao City will focus on faith, culture and dialogue between religions in troubled Mindanao.
Korean Coadjutor Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong of Kwangju had discussed the project with Archbishop Fernando Capalla, [...]
Two unidentified gunmen shot dead two men in a broad daylight attack Tuesday outside a Catholic church in the southern Philippines city of Kidapawan.
Police said Paul Escueta, 20, and Johnny Kumaladang, 28, were shot several times at close range. Both men died before reaching the hospital, the Mindanao Examiner reports.
The gunmen shot the duo at [...]
Requesting the Philippines government peace panel to avoid its past mistakes, Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez has welcomed plans to revive the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Bishop Iñiguez says the government must take into consideration last year’s Supreme Court decision on the Memorandum of Agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD), which it ruled as [...]
Share a story with us
Follow us on Twitter