Filipino Catholics mark country s first-ever baptism
Cebu Archdiocese celebrates 500th anniversary of Christianity by re-enacting Spanish baptism of local chieftains
A priest re-enacts the baptism of Cebu chieftain Datu Humabon and Queen Juana during a special 500th anniversary event in Cebu City on April 14. (Photo: Cebu Archdiocese)
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 country.
The April 14 re-enactment took place at the Basilica del Santo Nino in Cebu City, which is believed to be the spot where Spanish missionaries gave an image of the Child Jesus (Santo Nino) to the wife of the island’s local chieftain.
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This was the message of Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles Brown during Wednesday’s Pontifical Mass celebrating the first baptism that took place in the country.
“So the faith of Christianity was transported in this part of Asia by Europeans and now it is being re-transported to Europe and other places around the world by Filipinos. What do we see in this? We see the universality of the Catholic faith,” said Brown.
Brown said Filipinos have kept the Catholic faith alive even in foreign places.
“What we celebrate with hearts with joy is the fact that in these five centuries, the Catholic faith has entered deeply into the Filipino culture and has produced a distinctively Filipino expression of the unchanging and universal truth of Catholic faith,” Brown said.
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SunStar File April 15, 2021 THE Department of Health (DOH) 7 still doesn’t have enough vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) to start inoculating senior citizens, the next sector on the government’s priority list. Its available stock is only for medical frontliners.
The DOH 7 issued the clarification after senior citizens showed up at a mass inoculation in one of Cebu City’s commercial malls on Thursday, April 15, 2021, expecting to be vaccinated only to be refused.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH 7 spokesperson, said that as of Thursday, they only had 178,560 doses of Sinovac available, 44,400 of which arrived in Cebu on Wednesday, April 14.
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CEBU CITY At least 13,000 healthcare workers (HCWs) in Central Visayas have completed their COVID-19 vaccination.
Data from the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH Region 7) showed that as of April 12, 13,405 healthcare workers have already received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some 59,856 medical workers have yet to receive their second dose, said Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson and chief pathologist of DOH Region 7.
There were 73,261 HCWs who already received their first dose of the vaccine while 58,520 have yet to be vaccinated.
The region has 131,781 HCWs who are qualified to receive the vaccine as part of A1 group in the priority list of the government’s vaccination program.