“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 [...]
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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 National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) joins the families of Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno and other victims of human rights violations in calling for the capture of retired Major General Jovito Palparan. He, along with his co-accused, must immediately be brought to the bars of justice. Major Gen. Palparan, tagged as [...]
We are youth and women from the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) member churches and its associate members upon whose bodies are inscribed the scars and stripes of marginalization and discrimination inflicted by a culture and a system that is caught in the dehumanizing grip of patriarchy. We are youth and women [...]
WHEREAS, Supreme Bishop Isabelo delos Reyes, Jr. was the Founding Chairperson of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) in 1963; WHEREAS, through his leadership as the 4th Obispo Maximo, he has led the ecumenical journey of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, resulting to the membership of this Church to the World Council of [...]
“When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.” (Psalm 104:50) . The Earth is groaning from a climate crisis of catastrophic proportions. Global temperatures have increased immensely in the last fifty years and experts predict that these will rise even more in the coming decades. Global warming [...]
If there is one person living with HIV/AIDS, that is one person too many. The sad reality is that as of 2009, USAIDS estimates the population of people living with HIV-AIDS in the Philippines at 8,700. The Department of Health reported in January 2011 a 38% increase in the number of HIV positive cases. This [...]
During the 22nd NCCP General Convention, we collectively decried the brutality and notoriety of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration for its gross, systematic, and brazen violation of human rights. These violations were attributed by credible sources, including past United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Prof. Philip Aston, on her administrations’ counter-insurgency program, [...]
I. Background The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Over the last ten years, there have been increasing disaster occurrences leaving thousands of victims in their wake. The worsening vulnerability of Filipinos to disasters can be attributed to the country’s geographical characteristics as well as the socio-economic and political situation [...]
Our Sunday school teachers were right all along. Biblical economics beats Baal from any angle! With the finance crisis now affecting us globally, it is becoming apparent that fantastic economic surpluses achieved out of greed more likely leads to the crisis of overproduction, which, in turn, brings about the plunder of nations and of peoples. [...]
