Pope Francis kicks off Asia tour with Buddhist temple visit

The 82-year-old Pope is on his first visit to Buddhist majority Thailand, where he will spend 4 days before setting off to Japan

Panama prisoners build confession boxes for papal visit

Pope Francis' visit to Panama in January 2019 is the first to the Central American country since the late John Paul II made the trip in 1983

Pope Francis to visit Egypt in April, Vatican says

This comes as Pope Francis has made interfaith dialogue and reconciliation a leading theme of his pontificate

Turkey: Pope's genocide declaration bears stamp of 'Crusades' mentality'

It is not an objective statement that conforms with reality says Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canlikli

Pope visits Armenian genocide memorial

I pray here with pain in my heart that such tragedies will not happen again that humanity does not forget and knows how to overcome evil with good says Pope Francis

Business in PH: The winners and losers in 2015

With big ticket events like the visit of Pope Francis and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC summit there were business sectors that gained and lost in 2015

'I have special admiration for Filipinos' - Pope Francis

The leader of the Catholic church fondly remembers the warm welcome he got in the Philippines

Pope electrifies Philadelphia with advice on family, immigration

His reform minded approach to social issues humility and focus on the most vulnerable has struck a chord across the country s racial and socioeconomic divide

Pope arrives in Havana with call for further US-Cuba thaw

UPDATED Pope Francis calls on Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama not to falter on the road to closer ties

Pope Francis hails 'Lolo Kiko' nickname

The 78 year old pontiff stresses the value of the elderly by recounting the nickname Filipinos gave him

BSP to produce more Pope Francis coins

Those interested to have commemorative papal coins have until March 13 to reserve online

What the health sector can learn from the papal visit

Here are three things the health community can glean from Pope Francis recent State and Apostolic mission to the Philippines

Pope Francis says sorry for 'impatience' in Leyte

Pope Francis also thanks the local archbishop for the witness of faith and endurance which your people showed me in the midst of their trials

Pope Francis to visit Sarajevo on June 6

UPDATED The Pope says he will visit the Bosnian capital to pray for peace and inter religious dialogue

Behind the scenes: The Pope most Filipinos didn't see

There is no difference between how he is in public and how he is in private the head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines tells Rappler

Confirmed: Pope 'much updated' on RH law

Pope Francis had the Reproductive Health law in mind when he spoke about Filipino families the CBCP head tells Rappler

Chasing the Pope, parang pag-ibig lang

Parang pag ibig kung para sa iyo talaga gagawa ng paraan ang tadhana para magtagpo kayo

More than 3.3M tweets recorded during PH papal visit

Smart Communications Inc reports there were 3 664 tweets per second at 6:30 pm on January 15 when Pope Francis arrived in Manila

CAAP mulls moratorium on penalties for drones

Drones confiscated during the papal visit will be returned once their operators register them with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines

#ShowThePope: The Philippines that Francis saw

What did Filipinos tell the Pope through their words songs and sheer numbers? What images of the Philippines are forever etched in his memories?

Street families speak up on DSWD Batangas trip

Some participants of the family camp attend the Senate inquiry presenting two sides

DSWD spends P4.8M on street families' Batangas trip

DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman during a Senate committee hearing defends her department s decision to take street families to out of town trips called family camps

The irresponsibility of rabbits

His is the smiling face under the dripping cowl of a yellow raincoat preaching mercy and compassion but little of either is shown for the women who are blamed for breeding like rabbits in a church that bans artificial contraception

Covering the Pope: The phones and raincoats got me thinking

Was it more important to take that photo than to look at the Pope and say pray before him or for these Catholics to marvel at his presence?

Francis, Charlie and the right to offend

The idea that the religious have a right not to be offended is an invitation for the many to oppress the few

Mercy and compassion when it hurts the most

My father has a bitter sweet mantra that he says to himself to stay sober: ‘Just for today I wont drink Bahala na bukas

'Amang' was biggest threat to Pope Francis

Ambassador Paynor says the Pope did not wear any bullet proof vest inside his garment Instead what he wore was a poncho for rain protection

Baby Brandon, blessed by Pope Francis, dies

Brandon s mother Gladys Precilla Lao says her son died at 6:44 pm Friday January 23 at the St Luke s Medical Center in Quezon City

The return of Baywalk’s banished ‘bedspacers’

Strange how a day before Pope Francis comes to Manila 100 or so people seem to have vanished They seem to have magically disappeared from the same place where the sea swallows the sun

Learning joy from Pope Francis

I’m not comfortable with the fanfare that follows Pope Francis but there are many things this man is doing right

Palace defends sending street kids to resort

We don’t make it a point to lie about these things also because you see that one of the administration’s biggest program is poverty alleviation

PNP sacks officer for delaying cops' food allowance during Pope visit

PNP OIC Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina places Police Security and Protection Group budget officer Police Superintendent Evangeline Martos under administrative relief

#PopeFrancisPH visit commemorative stamps now available

PRESS RELEASE: PHLPost urges online buyers to place their orders only on the Pinoy eMall site following reports that copies of the commemorative stamps are being sold in the black market at much higher prices

The problem with how media covered Pope Francis

The important questions were never asked The contradictions were not questioned If anything the opportunity to know the Pope better was lost

Why Pope Francis disrupts our political categories

If we truly want our encounter with Pope Francis to last beyond his pastoral visit we should instead ask how does Pope Francis or how does Catholicism or Christianity in general for that matter see the world?

Pope Francis lifts troubled PH flag carrier

A blessing is what Asia s longest serving commercial carrier needs the most at this time says PAL president and COO Jaime Bautista and it gets just that

Citizen journalists cover the 'Millennial Pope'

Rappler thanks volunteers and netizens who covered the papal visit with us

#PugadBaboy: Security protocol

#PugadBaboy: Security protocol punchline 3

#PugadBaboy: Security protocol punchline 2

Not God's will: Hope is dead, long live hope

For non believers certainly there is something to be said about the power that brings 6 to 7 million people out on the streets We must learn from it

Hidden from the Pope?: Netizens, DSWD speak up on #streetkids

Discussion on the disappearance of street families in Manila during the papal visit

12 faces of Christ during the papal visit

In those 3 days I found myself encountering the God of surprises my educators have introduced me to

Pope on big families: Not main cause of poverty

Hailing big families in the Philippines Pope Francis blames poverty on an economic system that has replaced man with the god of money

Covering the Papal Visit: People over Pope Francis

More than the opportunity of seeing Pope Francis 4 times I will treasure more the stories and the conversations I had with the people

Aquino reiterates stance: 'I am against abortion'

Malacañang releases President Benigno Aquino III s 5 point position on responsible parenthood following Pope Francis statements against artificial contraception

CBCP on Pope's interview: 'Leave rabbits in peace'

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines says the Pope in his comments on responsible parenthood stressed traditional Church teaching

The many faces of Pope Francis

We see a pattern in Pope Francis’ Church—vague but impressive words followed by clear but contradictory actions

Pope Francis: What’s the big deal?

If your faith could so easily be shaken then perhaps you didn’t have enough of it in the first place

Were street families hidden from the Pope?

About 400 individuals from street families under the DSWD s MCCT program in Malate are brought to a resort in Nasugbu Batangas during the papal visit