Jenette Ruedas was six months pregnant when Pope Francis came to Tacloban City in the central Philippines to visit the ...

By Kristine Sabillo Pope Francis was well known for his environmental activism. Time called him the “Climate Pope” for his ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

Pope Francis, who appointed three of the 10 Filipino cardinals in Church history, visited the archipelago nation only once, when he led a mass for survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan. A man prays at ...

His journey included a visit to Tacloban, where he met with survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the deadliest storm in Philippine history. During that papal visit, a volunteer, Kristel Padasas ...

Residents in the capital were still processing the news. Some rushed to cathedrals to pray while others who spoke to AFP were not yet aware of his passing. Outside the Baclaran Church in metro ...

He had traveled to Tacloban, on the island of Leyte, to comfort survivors of one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones, Typhoon Haiyan. The 2013 storm killed more than 7,300 people ...

Francis' journey included a visit to Tacloban, where he met with survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the deadliest storm in Philippine history. Cardinal Advincula described the 2015 visit of Francis as ...