Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...

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That the Philippines is the only Christian nation in Asia is a claim widely rehearsed in and about Philippine society. It is, for one, often found in media commentaries about Filipinos and their ...

THE Philippines is a nation full of kind, generous, resilient and long-suffering people who, for centuries, have been misled by and burdened with the corruption and injustice committed by dynastic ...

Thousands of devotees filled the streets for an annual Catholic procession in the Philippines. Religious locals gathered around the Quiapo Church in the capital city Manila, where the image of the ...