Religion in the Philippines

April 21, 2025

Israel Thriving in the Philippines

By David Haldane April 21, 2025 This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen […]

March 17, 2025

Israelis Misbehaving or Filipino Antisemitism?

By David Haldane March 17, 2025 My first reaction was astonishment. Followed almost immediately by alarm. Not just the kind that gently wakes […]

February 10, 2025

Sinning Priests

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2025 I don’t even remember the story. It was published back in 2003 when, as a staff writer for […]

February 2, 2025

The Jews of Siargao Island

By David Haldane February 2, 2025 It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man […]

January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025 I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]

December 23, 2024

The Pope’s Anti-Semitism

By David Haldane Dec. 23, 2024 The image was surreal. There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of […]

March 26, 2024

Nailed to a Cross

By David Haldane March 24, 2024 I vividly remember the first time I ever set foot in a Catholic Church. I must […]

December 25, 2023

A Jewish Christmas in the Philippines

By David Haldane Dec. 25, 2023 For me it’s always the same. Gangs of Christmas carolers gather on the patio to sing until we […]

December 19, 2023

Socorro Bayanihan: Commune or Cult?

By David Haldane Dec. 18, 2023 We were a mile off the coast of a remote Philippine Island when I realized the boat […]

November 28, 2019

First Communion

By David Haldane Nov. 28, 2019 The voices of children. There’s nothing quite like it, especially when they’re raised in song. I had occasion to […]