Continuous heavy rains caused by the Southwest Monsoon and aggravated by Typhoons Saola and Haikui have left more than 2.4 million people affected.
The Obispo Maximo, or Supreme Bishop, of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) has made an appeal for better communication and information sharing between Anglican/Episcopal Churches around the world.
Bishop Alberto Ramento of Tarlac in the Philippines, former Prime Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church, or Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), was found stabbed to death at his rectory on the morning of October 3. The initial police report said that he may have been killed by robbers
One Sunday in August inside a farm warehouse converted into a chapel, more than a hundred parishioners were singing praises to the Lord as they pledged to offer their lives in “seeking a just and healing society”.
A resolve to promote peace, justice and real understanding between faiths was the main outcome of the meeting of the Council of Churches of East Asia (CCEA) which met in the Diocese of Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, in October.
The Episcopal Diocese of Santiago (EDS) recently elected the Rev. Alexander A. Wandag, Sr. during the diocese's primary convention. Fr. Wandag will serve as the first diocesan bishop of the ECP's newest constituent diocese. Considered to be the quickest and most orderly episcopate election in ECP history, the actual voting ended on the first balloting, lasting less than 25 minutes
The Episcopal Church in the Philippines is shortly to establish its sixth diocese when the Episcopal Diocese of Northeastern Luzon is created.
On 17 February Bishops of the Philippine Independent Church and the Episcopal Church in the Philippines signed a Concordat of Full Communion between the two Churches.
The Anglican Communion Office has just received the news that the Philippines Independent Church ordained its first woman priest in February. The Revd Rosalina Villaruel Rabaria was ordained priest on 9 February at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Providence and Guide in Albasan, Numancia, Aklan.
The Rt Revd Ignacio Capuyan Soliba, Bishop of Northern Luzon, has been chosen as third Prime Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines at the Church's June Synod. He will be installed early next year upon the retirement of the Most Revd Narcisco Ticobay.
Bishop Soliba, aged 52, has been Bishop of Northern Luzon since 1991. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Divinity from St Andrew's Theological Seminary. After ordination in 1974 he served as a school chaplain in Balbalasang and became priest in charge of Balbalasang in 1975. He went on to serve as Vicar of Balantey and then Mount Data becoming Rural Dean of Richardson in Griffitts Deanery in 1983.
The Anglican Communion Office has just received news that the Rt Revd Robert Lee Omengan Longid, Bishop of the Northern Philippines, died of a heart attack in hospital on 20 January. Bishop Longid, who was 60, became Suffragan Bishop of the Northern Philippines in the Philippine Episcopal Church in 1983 (diocesan in 1986) after several academic and pastoral appointments
