MORE FINDINGS from the Full Iglesia Ni Cristo Locale Directory.

I, once again, pulled the full public Iglesia Ni Cristo locale directory for August 2026. It contains 8,768 locales across 198 ecclesiastical districts. Here are what I found:

1. The network is still overwhelmingly in the Philippines

7,305 locales, or 83.3%, are in the Philippines. The remaining 1,463 are spread across 192 countries, led by the US with 351, Canada with 181, Australia with 102, Japan with 86, and New Zealand with 46.

The overall pattern looks much more like a Filipino diaspora network than an evenly distributed global presence.

The districts with the most locales are all in the Philippines. Nueva Vizcaya, Surigao del Norte, Cagayan de Oro City, Isabela South, and Naga City/Camarines Sur each have between 97 and 112 locales.

2. District sizes vary a lot

The 198 districts have an average of 44.3 locales, and a standard deviation of 23.2. Districts range from 4 to 112 locales, while the middle 50% have between 24 and 58 locales.

The difference between Philippine and overseas districts is pretty noticeable.

The 135 Philippine districts average 54.5 locales, while the 63 overseas districts average only 22.3.

The smallest districts are all overseas. Macau has only 4 locales, followed by San Diego County with 8, Silicon Valley with 10, Sabah with 10, Central Valley with 10, Eastern Ontario with 11, Bay Area California with 11, Texas with 12, Alaska with 12, and New Jersey with 13.

So an ecclesiastical district is not really a standardized unit in terms of size. One Philippine district can have more than 100 locales, while an entire overseas district can have fewer than 10.

3. AWS is highly standardized

I parsed 31,119 AWS slots. The median locale has four AWS slots per week, with individual locales ranging from one to 20.

Four schedule patterns account for about 85% of locales. The most common are Thursday and Sunday at 26.2%, Wednesday and Saturday at 24.4%, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 17.9%, and Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 16.2%.

AWS is heavily concentrated in the morning and evening. 6:00am and 6:00pm are the two most common times, with almost nothing scheduled around midday.

4. CWS is absent from a significant number of locales

6,397 locales, or 73.0%, have at least one CWS slot, while 2,371 locales, or 27.0%, have none.

CWS is only scheduled on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Most are on Sunday, which accounts for 72% of all CWS slots, followed by Saturday at 27%.

The timing is also highly consistent. 55% of all CWS slots are scheduled at exactly 8:00am, with most of the remaining slots between 8:15am and 9:00am.

5. The WS offered are overwhelmingly in Tagalog

Tagalog appears in 86.7% of locales, followed by English at 16.7%, Cebuano at 16.4%, and Ilocano at 6.0%.

There are also services in Hiligaynon, Nihongo, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Korean, and Portuguese. Outside the Philippines, these generally correspond to the Filipino diaspora and the language of the host country.

6. Contacts are sparse, but the gap is almost entirely PH vs overseas

74.6% of locales list no contact information, so only about 1 in 4 locales is directly actionable for outreach.

But the overall figure hides a huge PH vs overseas gap. Only 11.6% of Philippine locales have contact information, compared with 94.4% of overseas locales.

The overseas entries are also much richer. 88.8% have role tagged contacts and 57.3% list an email address, compared with only 1.7% and 0.5% in the Philippines.

Among the 2,228 locales with contact information, Resident Ministers are the most commonly listed role, with about 955 entries. Other common roles include Head Deacon, Secretary, and Overseer.