Archdiocese of Cebu on Misa de Gallo amid #OdettePH: ‘The show must go on’

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Archdiocese of Cebu said the Misa de Gallo will continue despite the incoming Typhoon Odette, which is expected to hit Cebu on December 16 or 17, 2021. Monsignor Joseph Tan, the spokesperson…

Why All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are celebrated

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/01/2021

(Part 1 of 2 part series) CEBU CITY, Philippines — Different colored flowers, dripping candle wax on cement tombstones, and thousands of people shoulder-to-shoulder in the otherwise empty graveyards. This used to be the scenery of a…

Archdiocese of Cebu willing to offer churches as vax sites

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/21/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Archdiocese of Cebu is willing to offer the churches as vaccination sites if the Cebu City government will ask for it. Acting Mayor Michael Rama recently said that they are looking into…

Archdiocese of Cebu awaits Cebu City’s final decision on Nov. 1 and 2

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/21/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Archdiocese of Cebu awaits the final decision for the opening or closing of cemeteries on All Souls’ and Saint’s Day on November 1 and 2, 2021, as the Church will follow the…

Tan defends quincentennial celebration: ‘Celebrate the good in it’

Rosalie Abatayo 09/08/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Even if the arrival of the Spaniards in the country has led to 300 years of colonization, the Catholic Church in Cebu maintains that there is something worth celebrating half a millennium after…

Auxiliary Bishop of Cebu asks Cebuanos to pray for him as he prepares for his new mission

Immae Lachica 05/15/2019

Cebu City, Philippines—Auxiliary Bishop Dennis Villarojo of the Archdiocese of Cebu is looking forward to his new mission in the Diocese of Malolos. The Cebuano Villarojo was recently assigned as bishop of the Diocese of Malolos in…

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