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Filipino Monsignor Arnaldo Catalan will be ordained as an archbishop at the Manila Cathedral by Cardinal Tagle on February 11

A peace deal should address the “roots of poverty and discrimination,” said Bishop Felixberto Calang of the group Sowing the Seeds of Peace

The country recorded 8,564 new infections, with the positivity rate going down to 24.3 percent based on samples of 37,932 individuals tested

“We can only make sense of the past by our ability to retell the story and acknowledging the pain and sufferings inflicted”

Father Pilario said the persons responsible for the killings are still in power, and many of them are running for positions in the elections

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines is set to release a statement on the coming national elections later this month

More than 400 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless after Rai hit the archipelago as a super typhoon in December

The Church leaders also called for a probe into "rumors and reports that politicking was behind the delay in the release of the decision”

Of the newly reported cases, 1,381 came from the Davao region, 1,053 from Metro Manila, and 973 from Central Visayas

The PMPI said that the bishops’ pastoral statement is “a challenge to themselves, as a Church … more than a guideline to the community"