Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:47:05 +0000
About 1,000 people here on Wednesday rallied behind Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, who was accused of sedition in connection with the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” videos.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:30:53 +0000
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) President Archbishop Romulo Valles on Saturday said the sedition case filed
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:28:12 +0000
Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas urged the Catholic faithful on Sunday “not to leave God and “bring their faith” when they cast their votes on May 13.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:20:16 +0000
The Palace on Wednesday said it should be the job of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), not Duterte administration officials, to prove that the threats against clergymen were the work of the government.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:32:41 +0000
It is “unfair” for critics to blame President Rodrigo Duterte for the death threats received by clergymen from the Catholic Church, as it was impossible to trace the source of such threats.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:01:29 +0000
Death threats received by Filipino priests could be from “pranksters” or staged by “anti-Duterte trolls,” Malacañang said Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:21:17 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Apart from Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas and three priests have also received death threats. The priests themselves — Fathers Flavie Villanueva, Robert Reyes, and Albert Alejo — made this revelation on Monday at a press conference held at the St. Vincent School of Theology on Tandang Sora […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:50:41 +0000
“Those without sin, cast the first stone.“Malacañang had this to say on Tuesday in response to the video showing Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas slamming President Rodrigo Duterte for attacking the Catholic Church.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:32:33 +0000
Catholic Church leaders have urged the faithful to avoid the “toxicity” of violence and falsehood and fight the “contagion of violence” as the country reels from a spate of killings amid a growing culture of impunity.
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All Albay Catholic churches would hold a series of Masses and set up the “holy hours” where the holy sacrament would be displayed to show support of the Day of Reparation launched by the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan on Monday. “The clergy of Legazpi will join the Lingayen-Dagupan clergy on Monday in their reparatory acts by way of Masses, holy hours and the ringing of bells,” Bishop Joel Baylon of the Diocese of Legazpi said.
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