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During a preliminary assembly on July 9, 2023, in Kalibo, Aklan, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines voted in favor of the proposal of Bishop Cosme Almedilla of Butuan for the separation from Butuan of a new diocese that will cover the province of Agusan del Sur, which is considered a “missionary frontier” with a third of its population being indigenous peoples.
During the sovereignty of the United States, the American government implemented the separation of church and state, [11] which reduced the significant political power exerted by the Catholic Church [11] and led to the establishment of other faiths (particularly Protestantism) within the country. [12]
According to the 2020 census, at least 84% of the population is Christian; about 79% belong to the Catholic Church while about 5% belong to Protestantism and other denominations such as Philippine Independent Church, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Apostolic Catholic Church, United Church of Christ in the ...
The following is a partial list of Christian denominations in the Philippines. Christianity is the country's dominant religion, [1] [2] followed by about 89 percent of the population. [3]
January 4 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11510, institutionalizing the alternative learning system (ALS). [2] [3]January 18 – The Department of National Defense announces its unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines which took effect three days earlier over claims that the New People's Army is recruiting members in the universities' campuses.
As of 2020, the Apostolic Catholic Church has 54,543 members in the Philippines. [51] The National Council of Churches in the Philippines reports that the Apostolic Catholic Church has more than 5 million members worldwide. [54] The largest international congregations are in Japan, United States and Canada. [citation needed]
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP; Tagalog: Sangguniáng Pambansâ ng mga Simbahan sa Pilipinas) is a fellowship of ten Protestant and non Roman Catholic Churches in the Philippines denominations, and ten service-oriented organizations in the Philippines.
The CBCP was embroiled in a controversy in 2011 over millions of pesos in donations from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office at the behest of then president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. [28] According to a Commission on Audit report in 2009, some bishops received donations for the purchase of vehicles from the PCSO. [29]