The World Council of Churches (WCC) is in need of a Director to head the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs and a Programme Executive for the Ecumenical Office to the United Nations in New York. For more details click on the links below or go to http://www.oikoumene.org/en/en/get-involved/job-openings Programme Executive, Ecumenical Office to the [...]
Contrary to news reports, a political advertisement and posts in the social media by a senatorial candidate, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) did not endorse any particular candidate for the May 13 Mid-Term Elections. It is the standing policy of the NCCP not to endorse any politician running for any [...]
From the beginning, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), has been praying for and supporting the peace negotiations. We celebrated every step forward both parties made. We were disappointed each time peace negotiations were suspended or fell into an impasse. But, we never lost hope. Our statement in November 13, 2002, affirmed this prayerful support saying [...]
Last April 24, 17 friends from Korea visited the National Council of Churches in the Philippines to learn and be in solidarity with the ‘sufferers’ of human rights violations. The Fellowship with the Sufferers is a group from the Korean Methodist Church who are dedicated to issues of peace and justice. The group is concerned [...]
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31) It was my first time to go out of the country, and not for fun and leisure, but something like a ‘trip for a cause’. Last April 15-17, 2013, I attended a 3-day training on “Climate Change Advocacy” organized by ACT [...]
The continuing denial of work opportunities and just compensation is a continuing denial of the Biblical promise of abundant life. That those who till the land to produce our food are the most impoverished in the Philippine society is itself a rebuke to an unjust economic and political order. This injustice worsens when their struggle for human [...]
Cordillera Day is all about the continuing struggle of communities in the Cordilleras to preserve patrimony. It is all about affirming the inseparable relationship of life and the land and the responsibility of the present to future generations. This is neither the language of foreign mining transnational corporations nor of their local lackeys. This is neither the language [...]
The following is a press release of a multi-sectoral group including church people, that went on a fact-finding mission in Mindanao. . DAVAO CITY – Arriving back at Davao City at Monday dawn, the 70 delegates of the three-day National Humanitarian and Fact-finding Mission remain apprehensive of more boding violence now possibly aimed at the [...]
Rev. Canon Dr. Gideon Byamugisha will be jointly hosted by the NCCP and UCCP Cosmopolitan Church when he arrives in Manila for a series of talks and workshops on the issue of HIV/AIDS especially on awareness raising and advocacy, programming for accelerated HIV/ AIDS prevention from May 31 to June 5, 2013. On June 3, [...]
Dear partners in the work of God’s justice, Please find the statement from the National Council of Churches in Korea concerning the present political situation in the Korean Peninsula. We thank all partners for their words of support and concern over the past weeks. Our own prayers continue to for the wisdom of God to [...]