The Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival unveiled on Wednesday the nine full-length films vying for top honors at ...

During its meeting in Ozamis, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines met with the staff of the globally ...

Pope Francis on Monday bestowed the “pallium,” a white woolen vestment symbolizing a metropolitan archbishop’s pastoral ...

Hundreds of Catholic devotees wrapped themselves in dried banana leaves and covered their bodies with mud on Wednesday in the ...

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The Mowelfund Film Institute celebrates four decades of Philippine independent cinema. The first-ever indie film and video festival was held in the now-defunct Wave theater at Araneta Center in 1986.

A newly formed Philippine ecumenical group has denounced Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, a known ally of the Duterte family, for using God’s name to defend himself in the country’s current political ...

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Manila, Philippines — The death toll from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the Philippines rose to at least 35 on Monday after at least 17 people were killed in a southern Philippine province ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the Mindanao region in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing dozens of people and triggering scenes of panic as buildings collapsed and emergency sirens ...