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Missionaries of the Sacred Heart with villagers in front of a Roman Catholic church in the Philippines, circa pre-1920. Early Christian presence in the Malay archipelago and the Philippine Islands may be traced to Arab Christian traders from the Arabian Peninsula. They had trade contacts with early Malayan Rajahs and Datus that had ruled these ...
The 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines (500 YOC) was a quincentennial observed in the Philippines. It was held from April 4, 2021, to April 22, 2022, to commemorate the introduction of Christianity in the Philippines in 1521 when the Magellan expedition made a stopover in the islands.
The Baháʼí Faith in the Philippines started in 1921 with the first Baháʼí first visiting the Philippines that year, [73] and by 1944 a Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly was established. [74] In the early 1960s, during a period of accelerated growth, the community grew from 200 in 1960 to 1000 by 1962 and 2000 by 1963.
The Spanish government was highly dependent on the influx of silver from Mexico and Peru, since it supported the government in Manila, to continue the Christianization of the archipelago. The most difficult challenges for the missionaries were the dispersion of the Filipinos and the wide variety of languages and dialects.
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]
Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions, but has also, in some instances, been the result of violence by individuals and groups ...
Doctrina Christiana, one of the earliest printed books in the Philippines for use by the Spanish friars in spreading Catholicism. The Spanish friars were the crucial elements in the Westernization of the Philippines, and in spreading the Christian faith in that part of the world. Though missionary endeavors played a key role in their project ...
Evangelicalism is of the minor Christian denominations in the Philippines and is the fourth most widespread, followed closely by Iglesia ni Cristo and Hinduism.. According to the 2000 Census, 2.8% of Filipinos identified as Evangelicals.