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A powerful explosion believed caused by a bomb ripped through a Catholic Mass and killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others Sunday in a predominantly Muslim city in the southern ...

That the Philippines is the only Christian nation in Asia is a claim widely rehearsed in and about Philippine society. It is, for one, often found in media commentaries about Filipinos and their ...

Thousands of devotees filled the streets for an annual Catholic procession in the Philippines. Religious locals gathered around the Quiapo Church in the capital city Manila, where the image of the ...

Learning from past presidential elections, many Filipino politicians have engaged in disinformation campaigns against their opponents and critics to serve their interests. Paid trolls on social media ...

What can American people of faith do in the midst of the kind of global catastrophe that has devastated the eastern coast of the Philippines? Give generously to relief organizations. But you know that ...

A week or so ago, the Pew Research Center published a survey on “religious nationalism.” It is an unwieldy term, as the researchers admitted, but Pew did its best to simplify it. In the Philippines, ...

Filipino Protestants gathered in downtown Manila’s gothic United Church last week to celebrate a milestone event: the commissioning of missionaries to foreign lands. The Rev. Jorge R. Quismundo, 29, ...