SECTION III

Crimes Against Religion 1 and Worship

 
ARTICLE 219. The penalty of prisión correccional and a fine of not less than
sixty-five and not more than six hundred and fifty pesetas shall be imposed upon any
person or persons who by violence, overt acts, threats, or tumult shall impede,
interrupt, or disturb the functions, acts, ceremonies or manifestations of the State
religion, if the crime shall have been committed in any church, chapel, or places
devoted to worship; if the offense be committed in any other place or places, a penalty
ranging from arresto mayor to prisión correccional in its minimum degree and a fine
of not less than fifty and not more than five hundred pesetas shall be imposed.
ARTICLE 220. Any person who, with intent to insult the Catholic religion,
shall trample upon, cast upon the ground, or in any other manner profane the sacred
forms of the eucharist shall suffer the penalty of prisión mayor.  IEcaHS

ARTICLE 221. Any person who, in contempt of the State religion, shall

trample upon, destroy, break, or profane the sacred objects devoted to divine worship,
whether the offense be committed in a church or elsewhere, shall suffer the penalty of
prisión correccional.
ARTICLE 222. A penalty ranging from arresto mayor to prisión correccional
in its minimum degree shall be imposed upon any person who, with deliberate intent
to bring the Catholic religion into contempt, shall publicly scoff at its dogmas, rites or
ceremonies, if the offense shall have been committed in a church or during divine
services; if the offense be committed at any other time or place, the penalty of arresto
mayor shall be imposed.
ARTICLE 223. The penalty of prisión correccional in its medium and
maximum degrees and a fine of not less than six hundred and twenty-five and not
more than six thousand two hundred and fifty pesetas shall be imposed upon any
person who, by means of threats, violence, or other equivalent compulsion, shall force
some other person to perform an act of worship or prevent him from performing such
act. 
ARTICLE 224. The penalty of arresto mayor shall be imposed upon any
person who, by any of the means enumerated in article two hundred and nineteen,
shall impede or disturb the performance of the ceremonies of Catholic worship within
the confines of any cemetery.
ARTICLE 225. The penalty of arresto mayor in its minimum degree shall be
imposed upon any person who, by any of the means enumerated in article two
hundred and nineteen, shall disturb the performance of ceremonies conducted by
persons who do not profess the Catholic faith, in cemeteries or other places where
such ceremonies are now or may hereafter be lawfully authorized.
 ARTICLE 226. Any person who publicly propagates, preaches, or performs
the ceremonies of any religion other than the State religion shall suffer the penalty of
prisión correccional in its minimum degree.
The provisions of articles two hundred and nineteen, two hundred and twenty-
two, two hundred and twenty-four, and two hundred and twenty-five, and those
contained in the first paragraph of this article shall be subject to any general
provisions relating to the exercise of the police power. DEIHSa

ARTICLE 227. The provisions of this section shall be understood to be

without prejudice to any rules respecting foreigners resident in the Philippine Islands,
established by proclamations or regulations in force, or by virtue of customs lawfully
sanctioned by the Governor-General of said Islands.
||| (The Penal Code, [])