By Rani Punnasseril Manila, Feb 19, 2024: As many as 54 people, including 22 from India, working among migrants in Asia were given special training to attend to migrants in the subcontinent. The February 12-17 program in the Philippines capital of Manila was organized by the Vatican Dicastery for IntegratedContinue Reading
Rome: While pandemic restrictions will prevent Catholics in the Philippines from traveling to the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest next month, the country’s bishops have organized their own online celebration of the Eucharist. The Philippines bishops had intended to send a delegation of 500 Catholics to the September 5-12Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Manila, March 10, 2020: In Manila, the Philippines: I meet the homeless along the street, begging at doors, camping under the bridge, stopping vehicles on the road asking for coins, lying on the sidewalks — so frail and exposed to rain and sun. I was prejudiced, skepticalContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Manila, August 10, 2019: Dominga Abinoha, a 75-year-old illiterate woman, is one of the hundreds of thousands of poor in the Philippines. She is among the 3.1 million shelterless who have made Manila, the Philippines capital the world’s largest city of homeless people. Dominga’s parents were fromContinue Reading
This year’s recipients bring the total number of Magsaysay laureates to 330Continue Reading
Missionaries brought the image to Manila in 1618Continue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila: Two thirds of nearly 45 million human trafficking victims worldwide are in Asia, an international conference in the Philippines was told. Millions continue to be forced into bonded labor, commercial sex trafficking and child soldiering and the worst vulnerable are women and children, according to theContinue Reading