This paper presents a description of the pre-colonial view of women in leadership particularly in the religious context and traces how Western biases impinged upon Filipino religiosity that discriminates women in relation to their religious roles. Also, this paper explains how and why the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement was instrumental to the re-emerging of women leadership in the religious context: first, the understanding and experience of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement on the empowering of the Holy Spirit to both men and women; second, the compatibility of the Pentecostal and Charismatic view on women and the Filipino religious consciousness; and third, the acknowledgement of the significant contribution of women ministers/leaders in the growth of Pentecostal and Charismatic movement in the Philippines as history informs us.