{"id":148207,"date":"2018-01-23T03:27:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148207"},"modified":"2018-01-23T03:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:27:34","slug":"dot-ph-an-ideal-religious-pilgrimage-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/23\/dot-ph-an-ideal-religious-pilgrimage-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT: PH an ideal religious pilgrimage destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148250\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26904462_2047920988568096_7358641869369781123_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148250\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26904462_2047920988568096_7358641869369781123_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism Secretary Corazon Tulfo-Teo graces the Miss Iloilo Dinagyang 2018 Grand Coronation Night (Photo: Department of Tourism - Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26904462_2047920988568096_7358641869369781123_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26904462_2047920988568096_7358641869369781123_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26904462_2047920988568096_7358641869369781123_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism Secretary Corazon Tulfo-Teo graces the Miss Iloilo Dinagyang 2018 Grand Coronation Night (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfTourism\/photos\/pcb.2047921045234757\/2047920988568096\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfTourism\">Department of Tourism &#8211; Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country with different religious activities celebrated annually in its islands, is eyed by the Tourism Department to promote \u201cfaith tourism\u201d by being a religious pilgrimage destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlans are underway to make the Philippines a destination with unique spiritual significance that will attract millions of pilgrims from all corners of the world, as shown in popular religious festivities in Cebu, Iloilo, and Bohol,\u201d Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Wanda Corazon Teo said in a statement on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines is an ideal destination of religious pilgrimage, not only for sightseeing but to actually experience time-honored Filipino traditions dating back to pre-Spanish era, and then the Christianization,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Tourism Secretary made the statement after attending two well-known annual religious festivals in the Visayas region which are Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo and Sinulog Festival in Cebu.<\/p>\n<p>Sinulog Festival is the feast of Santo Ni\u00f1o or Child Jesus held every third Sunday of January. While Dinagyang Festival is held every fourth Sunday of January, also in honor of the Santo Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, according to Teo, there are 6.6 million Catholics in Asia that would be beneficial for the country\u2019s proposed tourism plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn South Korea alone, the Philippines\u2019 top tourist market, there are five million Catholics while there are 800,000 in Malaysia, 500,000 in Japan, 200,000 in Thailand, and 185,000 in Singapore,\u201d she cited.<\/p>\n<p>In line with this, Teo said that they will propose a budget to restore historical shrines and old churches all over the country. These developments will be in preparation for the 2021 commemoration of the 500<sup>th<\/sup> year anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan\u2019s arrival in Cebu. Historically speaking, it was Magellan who brought Christianity to the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country with different religious activities celebrated annually in its islands, is eyed by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":148250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-travel","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}