The Philippines is an archipelago made of three major islands called Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The whole country is ...

then the appointed American governor-general in the Philippines and future president, denying U.S. requests to buy land from Catholic religious orders. Leo XIII’s papacy marks the beginning ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

a likely nod to Pope Leo XIII, who grappled with the harms of communism and capitalism, and by his ministry in Peru, where socioeconomic conditions mirror those of the Philippines. “This is a ...

Vatican cuts phone signal ahead of secret Sistine Chapel vote to elect new pope - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior cardinal Giovanni Battista Re prayed for the cardinal electors to be enlightened to c ...

The Cardinals are attending the last mass before electing the new pope - but who is in contention for the role?

From first light, thousands of people made their way along Via della Conciliazione - the grand thoroughfare that leads to the Vatican - singing hymns, praying and swapping stories.

MANILA, Philippines — It is revealing—and perhaps ... drawing a genealogical line from Leo XIII’s “Rerum Novarum” (1891) on labor and capital, to Pius XI’s “Quadragesimo Anno ...

Other four regions with growth faster than the national level were Davao Region at 6.3 percent, Eastern Visayas at 6.2 percent, Northern Mindanao at 6.0 percent and the Negros Island Region (NIR) at 5 ...

He was surpassed only by Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at age 93 ... although he still remained broadly popular among the region's Catholics. Image: Pope Francis appears on the cover of the ...

Photo: Chen Yi-kuan, Taipei Times Given that Taiwan is at the center of the Indo-Pacific region, it is indispensable to countries upholding the free and open Indo-Pacific order such as the US, Japan ...

The Philippines' Muslim-majority autonomous Bangsamoro region in the country's south has seen significant progress since its creation in 2019, following a peace deal with a separatist Muslim rebel ...