In a Facebook post today, the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific, announced the passing of Fr. Joseph Pham Thanh Liem, former provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in Vietnam, on April 6 after battling a disease.
The Samarinda Ministry of Religious Affairs Office in East Borneo Province refused to recommend the construction of a Toraja Christian Church building, despite having fully accomplished the requirements in the past 10 years.
Serving as a parish priest and a diocesan administrator since 2014, Fr. Ronald Anthony Parco Timoner was named by Pope Francis as the new bishop of the Diocese of Pagadian, a statement issued by the Vatican Press Office on April 3 (Manila time).
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar (CBCM) has called for an urgent cessation of hostilities between the forces of the military junta and the guerillas and allow the free passage of aid for the victims of the 7.7
magnitude earthquake that shook the country on March 28.
Jose Rizal, a national hero of the Philippines, was accorded honor by the Indians with a monument right at the heart of the capital of the world’s most populous country.
The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of the Immaculate Conception of Malabon City would be accorded by the Vatican a special bond of spiritual affinity with the Basilica of Sancta Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Women in Alojipan, a village in the mountainous section of Culasi town in Antique, weave strips of bariw into sleeping mats and sell them to supplement the income that their husband generates from growing crops and manual labors.
Bishop Elias L. Ayuban, Jr., head of the Diocese of Cubao, has encouraged the newly confirmed students of Claret School of Quezon City to be true soldiers of Christ.
