Pope Francis' Message to the PCNE participants in Manila

His Holiness Pope Francis delivered his message in English to all the participants of the Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE) which was held at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. The Pope highlighted his high hopes for the Catholic Church in Asia.

The conference is said to be an avenue to rejuvenate the ideals of Catholicism in the midst of secularist and modernist influences buffering its state. Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said that PCNE, dubbed as the Asian gathering of faith, the event serves as a “response to the call for new evangelization—a new way of being Church that responds to the emergent powerful culture affected by developments in information technologies, new media, and social networking that influence the people’s way of thinking.”

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“Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Mabuhay ang Asia! Pagpalain kayo ng Diyos!" (Long live the Philippines! Long live Asia! May God bless you!),” the Pope said. These words were omitted in this video probably because of the strict caption that says the first message 'in english' by the Pontiff... *smh*