Cebu Archdiocese has continued its commemoration of 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines with a re-enactment of the first-ever baptism in the Catholic-majority ... That same day, Portuguese ...

He then explained to me that the first three volumes were technical ... all these details give us a glimpse of the Philippines long before Magellan.

The island, about 10 kilometers long from north to south, is believed to be where the first Mass on Philippine soil took place on March 31, 1521, celebrated by Father Pedro de Valderrama. The priest ...