This year, the Philippine Government will go through the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) under the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Ten organizations, including the NCCP, under the Philippine UPR Watch submitted their alternative reports to the UNHRC. These reports concluded that the human rights situation in the country has not [...]
“Innocent people have become victims of violence, and some of them have even been killed. But now I command you to do what is right and see that justice is done. Rescue everyone who has suffered from injustice.” Jeremiah 22:3 . Will it be a never-ending story of violent demolitions in urban centers with each [...]
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) joins the farmers and the people in celebration over the ruling of the Supreme Court En Banc on Hacienda Luisita ordering land distribution to the workers and pegging the just compensation on the fair market value of the land in November 1989. The Supreme Court has [...]
The Program Unit on Faith, Witness and Service recently conducted a Disaster Risk Reduction Seminar among 40 women and youth of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iligan last May 5, 2012. The women and youth saw the magnitude and scope of responding to disaster situation but still, they wholeheartedly committed themselves to the rehabilitation work with [...]
The Handwritten Bible Project of the Philippine Bible Society in close partnership with the NCCP will hold another Bible writing session, this time in Cagayan de Oro at the Cathedral of Jesus the Nazarene in the Diocese of Mocabula. Past writing sessions in cooperation with NCCP have been done at the National Capital Region at [...]
The Program Unit on Ecumenical Education and Nurture annually runs the Summer Internship Program for pastors and church workers-in-formation to provide them a deeper ecumenical understanding that will be one of their anchors when they are finally let go into the field. This year, there are 26 participants from St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, Silliman University [...]
Calling all children ages 4-16 of ecumenical workers and peace and human rights workers! You are invited to join the Ecumenical Children’s Camp from May 15-17, 2012 spearheaded by the Program Unit on Ecumenical Education and Nurture. This will be held at the Bishop La Verne D. Mercado Ecumenical Center (BLVDMEC). This year’s theme is [...]
We congratulate and convey our solidarity to all Dumagats and Mangyans in your annual gathering to celebrate life and community. The saying is true that indigenous peoples here and around the world can contribute to just and lasting peace. By our very nature as indigenous people’s we shun away from violence done to others and [...]
Cordillera Day is about remembering. It is keeping alive the legacy of struggle for self-determination passed on to us by Macli-ing Dulag, Daniel Ngaya-an Markus Bangit, William Claver and many others. They are the embodiment of the responses of Igorots to systematic landgrabbing, attempts at the rapacious exploitation of our natural resources and the repressive [...]
NEW YORK CITY (March 20) — Two Philippine bishops and a former political prisoner on Monday (March 19) said that the human rights situation in the Philippines did not improve under the one-year-and-a-half term of President Benigno Aquino III. “There is no change between the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and President Aquino,” Bishop [...]