The history of superstition in the philippines

Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.

A tribute. Bishop Nepomuceno: A life well-lived for others
From the Nuclear-Free Philippines Coalition (NFPC), 15 February 1997. The Bishop, a representative of liberation theology, was active in struggle vs. Marcos, then shifted to anti-nuclear struggle.
Trojan Missionaries in the Philippines
Friends of Peoples Close to Nature, 23 May 1999. An information campaign to counter the marginalization and brainwashing of indigenous groups. A symposioum in which tribal leader/pastor discussed landrights and loss of their culture. Or place here is full of missionaries, mainly Americans, who act like elephants in a porcelaine store, but behind them is a system.
In Baguio, healing is believing
By Tess Raposas, Inter Press Service, Asia Times, 22 September 1999. Baguio City is a fameous center for traditional and herbal medicine. But some healers go beyond traditional medicine to employ superstitious methods on the gullible, such as faith healing, psychic survery and electrical energy healing.
Hunt for remnants of fanatical Manila cult
AFP, The Straits Times, 14 August 2000. Army units were scouring a southern Philippine town yesterday for remnants of an extremist Christian cult after a fierce clash with the authorities that left 20 people dead. The Catholic God's Spirit group is one of dozens of tad-tad or chop-chop fanatical Christian groups in the southern Philippines, so named over their practice of hacking enemies to death.
Velarde declines Sin's invitation: Says he'd rather build bridges of understanding
By Genalyn D. Kabiling, Manila Bulletin, Tuesday 5 December 2000. Bro. Mike Velarde, leader of the eight-million-strong El Shaddai Catholic Charismatic Movement, will neither take the side of the Catholic Church nor the state on the issue of President Estrada's resignation.
Wahhabi extremism gaining a hold in Mindanao
The Straits Times 27 December 2003. The rise of a more radical doctrine is dividing the country's Muslim homeland and tapping into deep discontent caused by poverty and decades of war between separatist rebels and government troops. Our unique culture is under serious threat, We might wake up one day and find that the rigid foreign-influenced Islamic beliefs have replaced our own distinct cultural identity.