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 [...]
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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 [...]
“I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” Luke 9:40 The declaration and pursuit of justice in the Philippines is a continuing apostolate of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, for as long as people are unjustly vexed. We recognize the importance of relating with church bodies in [...]
The Reverend Saw Shwe Lin General Secretary Myanmar Council of Churches Dear Rev. Saw, We reach out to you and your people following the earthquake that struck your country. We join the families in grieving for those who have died and pray for the wounded, those who incurred losses to property, and those who respond [...]
