You plan to move to the Philippines? Wollen Sie auf den Philippinen leben?

There are REALLY TONS of websites telling us how, why, maybe why not and when you'll be able to move to the Philippines. I only love to tell and explain some things "between the lines". Enjoy reading, be informed, have fun and be entertained too!

Ja, es gibt tonnenweise Webseiten, die Ihnen sagen wie, warum, vielleicht warum nicht und wann Sie am besten auf die Philippinen auswandern könnten. Ich möchte Ihnen in Zukunft "zwischen den Zeilen" einige zusätzlichen Dinge berichten und erzählen. Viel Spass beim Lesen und Gute Unterhaltung!


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Showing posts with label Catholic Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic Church. Show all posts

Thursday, January 10, 2019

21-hour Traslacion 2019 ends with 'no untoward incidents'


MANILA, Philippines — The carriage carrying the image of the Black Nazarene reached the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila on Thursday after a 21-hour long procession that started at the Quirino Grandstand early Wednesday.
The procession started at a little past 5 a.m. on Wednesday and ended past 2 a.m. on Thursday, The STAR reports.
According to the Quiapo Church, as many as five million devotees were expected to participate in the traditional procession, which passes through major roads in the City of Manila.
The Philippine Red Cross said Thursday morning that it had given medical assistance to 1,613 patients, 747 of whom had their blood pressure monitored. Another 603 people were listed as being attended to for "minor cases" or "breathing difficulty, fainting, puncture, abrasion, bruises, laceration, toothache, nosebleed, sprain, hypoglycemia, swelling, muscle spasm, body weakness and dizziness." 
The National Capital Region Police Office, which handled security for the yearly event, said it had recorded no casualties or major untoward incidents. 
Director Guillermo Eleazar, NCRPO chief, said that around 7,200 police officers had been depoloyed to secure the route of the procession and to ensure order during the event. Police were at their posts a day before the procession and stayed on duty until the end.
"I would like to commend our police as well as the media who were there with us," he said.
"Based on our assessment, its better now than before, with the result of peace and order situation and with the result of injuries and casualties, this year it was more orderly compared to last time but we we want to improve on it more for Traslacion 2020," Eleazar also said in English and Filipino in a Facebook post.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Philippine Church "Right" despite Pope Francis Comments

 
Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma: Be involved. Photo from http://www.cbcponline.net/

Philippine Catholic leaders are standing firm against contraception, abortion and homosexual marriage despite Pope Francis’ comments urging a change of tone on those issues, the national Church said Tuesday. 
 
About 80 percent of the Philippines’ 100 million population are Catholics, making the country the bastion of the faith in Asia, and Church leaders insisted that its dogma would remain in place.

“He is not saying that what the Church deemed before as wrong is now right. He is merely telling us to be more compassionate,” Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines president Jose Palma said in reaction to the recent papal statement.
“He won’t be saying contraceptives, and even abortion, are now okay. No! Do not expect that to happen,” Archbishop Palma said in comments made Monday.
In an interview published last week, the Argentine pontiff urged a break with the Church’s harsh “obsession” with divorce, gays, contraception and abortion.
Philippine Church leaders have led a decade-long campaign against a birth control law that required the state to hand out free condoms and birth control pills, and provide post-abortion medical care.

The Supreme Court suspended the law in March so that judges could hear formal petitions from a range of Church-backed groups arguing that it was unconstitutional.
Archbishop Socrates Villegas, the vice president of the bishops’ group, said: “He (the pope) did not rebuff the strong opposition to contraception, abortion or homosexual marriage. He just set it on proper grounding.”

The transcripts of Palma’s and Villegas’ comments were made available by the bishops’ organisation to AFP on Tuesday.

Edcel Lagman, a former legislator who wrote the birth control law, told AFP the pope’s comments had put the Filipino Church leaders on the defensive, saying they belonged to its “ultra-conservative wing”.

“I think they will have to reconcile their doctrines and make themselves attuned to the liberal thinking of the new pope. There is no way to go but to follow the pope,” he said.

Lagman said the Filipino Church’s conservative activism was rooted in its key role converting locals to Christianity as part of the Asian islands’ 17th-century colonisation by Spain.

“The Church feels it should meddle in the affairs of the State,” he added.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Mindanao leaders set peace ‘summit’


Church, government and civil leaders in the south plan to meet on July 15, 2011 to support the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Read more in an "ucannews-report" here:


Mindanao leaders set peace ‘summit’

 PEACE FOR MINDANAO AND THE WHOLE PHILIPPINES!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Archbishop Oscar Cruz for Senator?


If giving the chance, would you vote for retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz for senator? This seems indeed to be intent the Archbishop for Senator Movement page, which went live on the popular social networking site FACEBOOK. Yes, I am also there. I am also on TWITTER. But because of other things. Fact is: social networking sites are important for many things, if, yes IF the privacy settings are really working well.

Regarding Oscar Cruz please check out the abs cbn news report HERE:

 Archbishop Oscar Cruz for senator?

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Philippines Had Divorce Already During US, Japan Occupations


The Philippines and the Vatican are the only states that do not have a divorce law. There are efforts to legalize divorce in the Philippines, but they met strong opposition from the Catholic Church. Filipinos are also divided on the issue.

There is a misconception that, if passed, it would be the first time that Filipinos would have divorce.


Check out more from the abs-cbn news report here:

PH had divorce during US, Japan occupations

Thursday, June 9, 2011

New Church Museum Opens in Ilocos


I love travelling. The new church museum launching in Ilocos Norte has been an amazing and unforgettable event among so many others. Check out more here: 


New church museum opens in Ilocos

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

DUST TO DUST... .

No, one can't scatter a person's ashes in the sea or the air, nor keep the urn in your home. I have heard such things many times - and, I saw the family grave somewhere on a big lot and compound... .

In 1963, shortly after Vatican II the Catholic church "determined that cremation was no longer absolutely forbidden. Only with the New Code of Canon Law (1983) did the Church lift the prohibition.

Monsignor Joselito C. de Asis, JCD, assistant secretary general of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and a canon lawyer, who completed his doctoral studies in Rome informed, that the CBCP has issued a number of guidelines, such as follows:

- Cremation may take place before or after the funeral mass.
- After cremation, the ashes are to be placed in a worthy urn and brought reverently to the place of burial.
- The cremated remains should be buried in a grave, mausoleum or columbarium. The practice of scattering the ashes in the sea or from the air is not keeping with the Church's norm regarding the proper disposal of the remains of the dead. 
- The urn holding the ashes should not be kept permanently at home for family altar... .