Manila, Jan. 21 -- A chapel inside the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales has been temporarily closed after it was desecrated.

The temporary closure was ordered through a decree issued by Iba Bishop Bartolome Santos Jr. on Jan. 19, a day after the San Roque Chapel and its adoration chapel were vandalized.

"The Sacred Host in the Monstrance was left in pieces on the floor," he said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines news website on Wednesday.

Santos added that the monstrance and sacred images were destroyed.

"These acts were committed by a person suffering from mental instability, which may be due to abuse of prohibited substances," he said.

The bishop did not impose a canonical penalty due to...