VATICAN CITY, JUNE 4, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Human rights were one of the central themes that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Benedict XVI touched on when they met in audience. Arroyo, whose country has the largest number of Catholics in Asia, met with the Pope today. After the papal audience, she met with Vatican...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The defense of human rights and the safeguarding of democracy throughout Southeast Asia were on the agenda as Pope Benedict XVI and his secretary of state met Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The pope and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, met separately with the president June 4 at the...
The Bells of Balangiga…are church bells of the Parish of Balangiga in the Philippines but now displayed on the grounds of F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. How did the bells get there? Well, in a nutshell, during the Philippine-American War (1901), in the town of Balangiga, located some 400 miles south...
