MANILA, Philippines — Spanish missionary priest Fr. Bernardo Blanco, who lived in the Philippines for nearly 50 years and was held captive for over a month by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG ...

Blanco lived in the Philippines for 32 years ... a quaint village in the Spanish province of Zamora, he was ordained a Claretian priest in 1953. Following his ordination, he was sent to Equatorial ...

Spanish missionary Fr ... Zamboanga City and arrived in the Philippines in 1977. He was then assigned to the Claretian Missions in Basilan, where he served as the parish priest of the Immaculate Heart ...

An Irish priest kidnapped last month in the southern Philippines was freed Thursday. Father Michael Sinnott was unhurt and ...

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