LA IGLESIA FILIPINA INDEPENDIENTE

 

                                   Una captura de pantalla durante un video contando sobre 

                                    los graves problemas aquejando el sector de turismo en Filipinas.

                                                                           Me encantó.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IWz9z_4gw&t=945s

AT THIS POINT THE PHILIPPINES SITUATION IS WORSE THAN WE THINK!! NOTHING IS WORKING , EVERYONE IS LEAVING

The past never leaves.  It stays, unnoticed.  It waits.

                                                            My poor country just gets poorer and poorer.

                                              At least this little chapel is nicely painted and looked after.

La Iglesia Filipina Independiente is _not_ the Catholic church.  It's a breakaway Church, a Church of the People.

It was born during the Revolutionary Period, just before the revolution against Spain.

The fact that it has perdured is, to me, significant.  It has not been swept away by the vicissitudes of our serial colonization.a

This is the expression of the popular religious sentiment of the Filipino people.  "Popular" meaning, "of the people".  In the Spanish sense.

Obispo Gregorio Aglipay, fundador.