Oliver Samson

No less than 950,000 Marian devotees joined the Traslacion in Naga, a city in the province of Camarines Sur about 400 kilometers south of Manila, the Philippines' capital.

Cardinal Bo said Synod Asia would provide content for the Church in Asia and the media.

Chairman Aurelio R. Montinolla III said the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation celebrates the late president's birthday on August 31.

He disclosed his conversion was influenced by a child's voice singing and telling him to "take up and read" the Scriptures.

"All of us are sinners," he said in Filipino. "We are not perfect, right. Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you. It's just a golden rule."

Maeda was appointed archbishop of the Osaka-Takamatsu archdiocese on August 15.

An account claims the coastline of this town in Sorsogon province, more than 600 kilometers southeast of Manila, reminded the Spanish colonialists of its older and bigger counterpart in the Iberian Peninsula, the city of Barcelona.

Pope Francis appointed Bishop Rui Manuel Sousa Valério patriarch of Lisbon.

"As archbishop of Lipa, I immediately informed our priests, the nuns at the Carmelite monastery, and the Confraternity of Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace about the letter from the aforementioned dicastery," Garcera said.

"The next World Youth Day will be in Asia," Pope Francis.