ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the role and place of religion in the life of Filipino migrants, particularly focusing on religious conversion. Religion provides migrants with spiritual and social capitals, which may facilitate their process of adjustment. Since there are migrants who maintain linkages with religious groups and families back home, it is instructive to have an understanding of diasporic religion. The Catholic Church in the twenty-first century faces multiple challenges requiring creative solutions that will not only sustain the faith but keep the membership as well. Sharing the gospel is a mission of the church, but in this age of religious pluralism there is a need for a shift from looking at other religions as “others” to finding shared values and working on a creative evangelization that recognizes and respects differences.
