Philippines News News Philippines » Religion: In the Philippines, Religion and Nature Collide
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Last November, a typhoon slammed into ...
News Philippines » Religion: The Contradictions of Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
A week or so ago, the Pew Research Center published a survey on “religious nationalism.” It is an unwieldy term, as the researchers admitted, but Pew did its best to simplify it. In the Philippines, ...
News Philippines » Religion: Faith thrives in Philippines as social tensions persist, data show
MANILA, Philippines — As Lent calls Filipinos to prayer, sacrifice and reflection, new global data suggest the country’s deepest divides may lie not in belief itself, but in how it is lived alongside ...
News Philippines » Religion: Column: Helping our brothers and sisters in the Philippines
What can American people of faith do in the midst of the kind of global catastrophe that has devastated the eastern coast of the Philippines? Give generously to relief organizations. But you know that ...
News Philippines » Religion: Filipino Faces Jail Time for ‘Offending Religious Feelings’
*This story was updated at 2:21 a.m. Feb. 7, 2013. Damaso. That was the one-word message, painted on a placard, that activist Carlos Celdran delivered to a group of bishops in Manila Cathedral in a ...