Philippines Archives

Two bishops ask Philippine president to let health workers go abroad

Sep 17, 2020

atholic bishops have called on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to lift a flight ban on Filipino health workers so that they can work abroad and provide for their families.

By Catholic News Service

Filipino cardinal and papal aide, Cardinal Tagle, has virus

Sep 11, 2020

One of Pope Francis’ top collaborators and a future papal contender, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Vatican said Friday.

By Associated Press

Former head of Philippine bishops dies of COVID-19 complications

Aug 28, 2020

Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz of Lingayen-Dagupan, former president of the Philippine bishops’ conference, died in a Manila hospital Aug. 26 after complications from COVID-19, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines announced.

By Catholic News Service

Army chief: Militant leader likely killed in Philippines

Aug 25, 2020

Abu Sayyaf militants may have staged suicide bombings that killed 14 people to avenge the death of a Filipino leader of the Islamic State group in the southern Philippines following a clash with troops last month, the army chief said Tuesday.

By Jim Gomez

14 killed, 75 wounded in bomb attacks in south Philippines

Aug 24, 2020

Muslim militants allied with the Islamic State group set off a powerful motorcycle explosive followed by a suicide bombing that together killed 14 people on Monday, many of them soldiers, in the worst extremist attack in the Philippines this year, military officials said.

By Jim Gomez

Philippine president eases lockdown in capital; churches allowed to open

Aug 18, 2020

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to ease a mild lockdown in the capital and four outlying provinces to further reopen the country’s battered economy in a high-risk gamble despite having the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia.

By Associated Press