What happened to Catholic vote?
Despite the efforts of the Catholic Church to sway the electorate into supporting senatorial candidates it deemed good for the country, some of its leaders ended up disappointed with the results of the elections.
Despite the efforts of the Catholic Church to sway the electorate into supporting senatorial candidates it deemed good for the country, some of its leaders ended up disappointed with the results of the elections.
Pope Francis on Sunday created the first saints of his reign, canonizing some 800 Italian martyrs who refused to convert to Islam in the 15th century, as well as a Colombian and a Mexican who founded congregations.
Jerusalem police on Friday arrested five ultra-Orthodox Jewish men trying to disrupt landmark prayers by female Jewish activists at the Western Wall plaza in the Holy City.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the religious group “Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name,” whose blessings political candidates have sought in the previous presidential elections, has announced the list of 12 senatorial bets his flock will support in the upcoming May 13 elections.
The Iglesia Ni Cristo officially informed their followers in Wednesday night’s worship that the church has picked seven Team PNoy senatorial candidates and five United Nationalist Alliance bets for their bloc voting on May 13.
Tanzania has arrested three more people over a deadly church bombing, bringing to nine the number of suspects detained, including several Saudis, President Jakaya Kikwete said Tuesday.
Pope Francis will travel to Brazil in July for World Youth Day, a major Catholic youth event expected to draw upwards of 2.5 million people, the Vatican said Tuesday.
A total of 2.25 million Filipinos were members of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) in 2010, up from 1.76 million in 2000, data from the latest census by the National Statistics Office (NSO) showed.
Oh no, not another Aquino. A Catholic priest on Monday said President Aquino’s youngest sister Kris should forget about her supposed plan to seek an elective post in 2016 out of “delicadeza” (sense of propriety).
Eminent Belgian scientist Christian de Duve, a winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, died Saturday aged 95 after committing euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, his family said.
Traumatized Christians in a Lahore slum where angry Muslims torched more than 100 homes say Pakistan’s two largest parties offer the only hope of protection at this week’s general election.
At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka, police and medical officials said Monday.
At least 30 people were injured, three seriously, in a suspected bomb attack Sunday at a packed new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.
