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Priest celebrates Mass in flooded chapel amid pandemic

Environmental experts attributed the flooding to rising sea waters and sinking lands due to excessive water extraction

More help needed for typhoon victims in Borongan diocese

Bishop Crispin Varquez of Borongan is appealing for more aid to reach several towns affected by the strong storm that hit the province on May 14.

Diocese of Borongan appeals for donations for typhoon victims

The Diocese of Borangan in the central Philippines has stretched its remaining social action funds to aid typhoon-affected communities.

Typhoon victims appeal for food, water, housing materials

About 47,000 families who were devastated by Typhoon Vongfong last week are in need of food, water and housing materials in the central Philippines.

PHOTOS: Typhoon spares not a church in central Philippines

The parish church of St. Raymond Nonnatus in the town of Arteche in Eastern Samar province was not spared by the wrath of Typhoon "Ambo."

Thousands seek shelter as torrential rain, strong winds batter Philippines

Thousands of people sought shelter in evacuation centers as typhoon Vongfong barreled through poor communities in several Philippine provinces.

Philippine dioceses shift aid focus from pandemic to typhoon victims

Several dioceses in the Philippines have temporarily shifted the focus of their relief efforts from families affected by the pandemic to those hit by a typhoon that made landfall on May 14

Mindanao diocese provides homes to earthquake victims

A series of strong earthquakes jolted a large part of the southern Philippines last year, leaving thousands homeless

Old Philippine churches no match for destructive disasters

Religious traditions in the Philippines are anchored on the physical presence of churches in almost all towns and cities

From resilience to resistance

Many people are no longer swayed by narratives of 'resilience' or 'acts of God' that ultimately blame the victims and seek to excuse criminal negligence

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