Spanish missionary Fr. Bernardo Blanco, who escaped abduction in Basilan in 1993, died Monday in Quezon City. In a social media post, the Claretian Missionaries announced Blanco’s passing at the ...

according to the Claretian Missionaries. He was 97. The Claretian priest died at 1:02 a.m. on March 10 at Diliman Doctors Hospital in Quezon City, his congregation announced. Blanco’s wake will ...

The saint’s missionary work and dedication to spreading the Gospel diring his time resonated deeply with the new bishop, who is a Claretian missionary. In his first address to the clergy and lay ...

Claretian priest Bernardo Blanco lived in the Philippines for nearly 50 years after he was expelled from an African dictatorship in the 1970s MANILA, Philippines – Spanish missionary priest ...

Militant Muslims have engaged in religious cleansing of large portions of the country — killing, kidnapping, raping, stealing land and renaming villages — said Bishop Wilfred Anagbe, a Claretian ...

Spanish missionary Fr. Bernardo Blanco, who was abducted in 1993 on the Mindanao island of Basilan, died on March 10 in Quezon City. Blanco, a Claretian priest, died at 1:02 a.m. at Diliman ...

The McCoy de Leon-starrer honors Claretian priest Father Rhoel Gallardo ... communion among different faiths” and “when young missionaries are afraid to go to challenging missions.” ...

Bernardo Blanco, a Claretian priest, died at 1:02 a.m. at ... an oil-rich country in Central Africa, for his first missionary assignment, serving there for 22 years. However, Blanco was among ...