Oliver Samson is a Philippines-based journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Radio Veritas Asia, Global Sisters Report, World Mission, CBCP News, BusinessMirror, Manila Bulletin, and Manila Standard.
After long years of service with the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), Brother Valentin Gruener passed away on September 14 at a hospital in Abra, a province more than 400 kilometers south of Manila.
Franciscan sisters, priests, brothers, and volunteers collected and disposed of sacks of trash strewn around a seaside of Cordova, the only town on Mactan island in Cebu, on August 31.
Prelates from the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference, Latin American Bishops Council, and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar have gathered to identify common pastoral issues and a manner for cooperation in a synodal approach in Luxembourg on August 28-29.
The Catholic leaders in India have expressed approval for the high court's decision to junk the request for the mercy killing of a patient in a vegetative state for 11 years.
As the Philippine House of Representatives' approved absolute divorce bill awaits review in the Senate, the Marriage Encounter Foundation of the Philippines (MEFP) has ensured the group would continue to work on strengthening the sanctity of marriage.
Lorenzo Ruiz was hung upside-down over a pit. He was physically abused to coerce him into giving up his faith. If he would renounce Christianity, the Japanese would spare him and set him free.