This is the bizarre moment a priest gives a service in a flooded church - as the parishioners attend in boats.
Roman Catholic priest Mon R.
Garcia III was recorded delivering the sermon in the town of Sitio Pariahan in Bulacan, the Philippines, on May 9.
The village has been sinking around 4cm a year since 2003, due to groundwater pumping and rising sea levels.
The resulting floods have swamped all the buildings.
More than 100 families used to live in this community some 30km north of Manila, but only around 40 remain today.
The residents, who refer to Sitio Pariahan as 'The Island Without Land', are now being relocated but they held a final service at the decades-old chapel.
The priest said: "I'm willing to celebrate the mass even without people.
This is the last mass we can have here.
We'll be leaving this town soon." Pariahan, along with other fishing villages, is one of the coastal towns that will be relocated to make way for the rise of an airport in Bulacan.
The devastation of the town highlights how the Philippines is among the most vulnerable in the world to hazards such as rising sea levels, floods, earthquakes and typhoons.
Some scientists suggest climate change or global warming is responsible.
Typhoon Ambo, or Vongfong, smashed into the country last week with heavy rain and wind causing floods and structural damage.
