Category Archives: Mission at Work

Founded in the 1750s, Linas, the first settlement of what is now Governor Generoso, was established by Christian settlers from Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, and Bislig City. In a letter dated July 16, 1891, Jesuit missionary Fr. Juan B. Llopart described the small hamlet’s strategic...

Named after the hometown parish where Spanish conquistador Jose Oyanguren y Cruz was baptized, San Pedro Church, now a metropolitan cathedral, figured in two of the bloodiest postwar attacks, attributed by the media to religious strife between Christians and Muslims. On Easter Sunday, April 19, 1981,...

Conversion to Catholicism in the last decade of Spanish rule in Davao was intense, with the pagan natives and the Moros living in remote areas as primary targets. In Mati, the evangelization efforts netted more than what the missionaries expected. Fr. Juan B. Llopart, S.J., reporting...

In Samal, there’s a clan that carries the surname Uyanguren. The family name, however, has no genealogic relations to Don Jose Oyanguren, the conqueror of Davao City but ac-quired as a result of baptism assigned and entered in church records as official surname of the...