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In 2021 the Church in the Philippines marks half a millennium of Christianity. Statistics in 2015 show that the Philippine population has exceeded 100 million. The Philippines is the world’s third largest local Church (after Brazil and Mexico). Of Asia’s 120+ million Catholics over 60% are Filipinos.
History. Missionaries of the Sacred Heart with villagers in front of a Roman Catholic church in the Philippines, circa pre-1920. Early Christian presence in the Malay archipelago and the Philippine Islands may be traced to Arab Christian traders from the Arabian Peninsula.
6 sie 2024 · F.X. Clark, S.J. (2019) "Pablo Fernandez's History of the Church in the Philippines (1521-1898)," Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 28: No. 4, Article 8. Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol28/iss4/8. Download.
22 mar 2021 · With Christianity sometimes described by some historians and educators as an instrument of colonialism, it shares some blame for the violence, abuses, and oppression that Filipinos experienced...
This introductory chapter focuses on some highlights of Philippine Christianity as it developed in the colonial—333 years under Spanish rule (1565–1898) and 48 years under the US-American regime (1898–1946)—as well as the post-colonial...
9 mar 2018 · Locals first came into contact with Catholicism when Ferdinand Magellan and his crew showed up as part of the colonial race in the 16th century that competed for resources and the Christianization...
A series of directories of the Catholic Church in the Philippines has been published by the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) since the post World War I1 years.
