PRIESTLY TREAT Some 34 Filipino priests serenaded parishioners with traditional Christmas songs at the start of the “Simbang Gabi” last Monday at the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Catholic tradition of Dawn Masses, or Simbang Gabi, in the Philippines this year is the second during the COVID pandemic but bigger crowds are now turning out in churches as ...

One way to pack the pews is to host a Simbang Gabi Mass. On Saturday, people filled church benches for the evening Mass at St. Mary of Vernon Catholic Church in Indian Creek. Simbang Gabi, a Filipino ...

MANILA, Philippines — One of the things 26-year-old Charina Clarisse Echaluce of Marikina City looks forward to during the holidays is attending the Simbang Gabi (dawn Mass). Her Christmas is not ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Filipinos trooped to churches in Metro Manila and provinces early on Tuesday, December 16, for the start of the ...

LOS ANGELES — The senses are overloaded by the unmistakable fragrance of incense floating in the air, punctured by the sound of soaring Tagalog Christmas carols and the kaleidoscopic flickering from ...