Paul VI has special relevance to the Philippines, as he was the first pope to visit the country—in 1970, when an attempt on his life was made at the Manila International Airport. Article ...

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Paul VI, who was the first pope to visit the Philippines, and martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador were declared saints on Sunday, October 14, in a ...

Manila, Philippines – On November 27, 1970, just minutes after arriving in Manila, Pope Paul VI escaped an assassination plot when Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza slipped through airport ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis took the opportunity during an address to families in the Philippines to praise Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical opposing contraception and affirming Church ...

There have only been three popes to have visited the Philippines, the first being Pope Paul VI in 1970, the second Pope John Paul II in 1981 and then in 1995.

Pope Paul VI was best known for reaffirming the church's ban on artificial contraception, ... a knife-wielding artist in the Philippines tried to stab him -- Africa and Latin America.

In 1970 Blessed Pope Paul VI included the Philippines in his apostolic pilgrimage to Asia and Oceania. Saint Pope John Paul II came to the Philippines twice – in 1981 and in 1995 for the World ...

The plots, according to Reuters, happened in 1970, when an artist tried to stab Pope Paul VI and in 1995, when police discovered a plot to blow up Pope John Paul II.

Pope Francis beatified Pope Paul VI on Sunday, and appeared to send a message to his conservative bishops by pointedly honoring Paul's attempt to make the Vatican move with the times in the 1960s.

(1978) Pope Paul VI died at 9:40 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the age of 80 after suffering a heart attack in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, ... Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, ...