CBCP urges faithful to ‘fast’ from digital media during Lent

2026-02-16 - 08:16

MANILA, Philippines – As an act of penance for the Lenten season, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called on the faithful to practice fasting—not from food, but from excessive use of phones and social media. In a pastoral letter issued on Monday, the CBCP invited Filipino Catholics to “undertake a digital media fasting as