Speakers: Archbishop Angelito Rendon Lampon OMI, DD, Archdiocese of Cotabato Most Reverend Cerilo “Allan” Casicas, Bishop of the Diocese of Marbel Bishop Redeemer Yanez, Jr., Iglesia Filipina Independiente, Diocese of Koronadal Fr. Antonio Labiao, Jr., Executive Secretary, NASSA/Caritas Philippines Fr. Jerome Millan, Social Action Center, Diocese of Marbel This event coincides with the closing of the Season of Creation and in solidarity with celebration of the National Indigenous Peoples’ Month.
Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP) and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines- Episcopal Commission on Lay Apostolate (CBCP-ECLA LAIKO)
The Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP) and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines- Episcopal Commission on Lay Apostolate (CBCP-ECLA LAIKO), jointly appeals and strongly urges the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), to justly and decisively dismiss with finality the election protests of Mr. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. against Vice President Leni Robredo.
We encourage our highest magistrates to model true fairness and pronounce courageously the rule of justice even in the midst of tremendous pressures from powers that be.
We look up to Your Honors and continue to hope that Truth, Justice and Accountability will guide your decisions and that the PET will not allow any person to be disadvantaged due to technical delays nor political maneuverings for the sake of our people.
The Covid-19 pandemic is on everybody’s mind, weighs on the spirit and invades the body, paralyzes social life and cripples the world economy. Yet, people are adapting, surviving, recovering and are resilient. They, but a few, are coping with the new normal, a reality that the virus is here to stay for a while longer and we have to live and survive it.
The best of human nature is seen in the dedicated service of health care workers. They risk, they sacrifice, they serve. Many tragically die helping others live. What an inspiration they are as they are saving lives and giving back health to the patients with Covid-19.
It is a privilege to help the poor, the sick and the abused children. They are emotionally, physically, and psychologically damaged by the brutal abuse of criminal adults. The dark side of human nature is always with us but now child abuse is expanding like another pandemic due to lock down.
The live streaming of child sexual abuse and the proliferation of pornography that lead to rape has grown. It is the secret crime, done alone to weak vulnerable children that are threatened and terrified to tell of their suffering and ordeal.
Pastor Carlo Diño and Miss Roxan Sabile join Laiko leaders and members nationwide in an Online Conversation presenting a program for our young people and how we can all contribute to preparing them to be our next generation of Godly leaders.
Warm greetings! In recent months, we’ve been witnesses to the worsening human rights situation of indigenous peoples (IP) in the country amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. With restrictions caused by quarantine measures, civil society organizations (CSOs), private business turned to online platforms to continually inform the public about the situation and issues of IPs, and still advocate for their rights despite the challenges.
The implementation of destructive large-scale infrastructure projects under the government’s Build, Build, Build (BBB) infrastructure program has not stopped despite the ongoing health emergency. The New Centennial Water Source-Kaliwa Low Dam project that will potentially destroy the environment and dislocate Dumagat and Remontado communities in Rizal and Quezon continues despite the incomplete and manipulated FPIC process by the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). The latest Commission on Audit (COA) report affirms this fact.
In this regard, the Network Opposed to Kaliwa, Kanan and Laiban Dams in cooperation with the Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (TFIP) would like to invite you to an online public forum “Kaliwa Low Dam: Kasalukuyang kalagayan at mga maka-kalikasang alternatibo”, on October 6, 2020 at 10AM to 12PM via the Zoom platform.
The date is significant as it marks the second year since the founding of the NO to NKKLD. This forum will also be the second part of TFIP’s Tudtulan Series which will include webinars and other online activities related to indigenous peoples’ rights.
The forum aims to share updates from communities in relation to the NCWS-Kaliwa Low Dam project. It also aims to discuss the reports from CoA, CHR and the petition to the Supreme Court regarding the onerous loan with the Chinese government to fund this project. More importantly, the network will discuss actions from this point while there is a pandemic and beyond which will include legal remedies, collective actions and lobbying for ecologically sustainable alternatives.
We look forward to your positive response and hope to have you with us in our advocacy for sustainable use of the environment for genuinely ecologically sustainable economic development and in upholding IP rights, and people’s welfare.
For NO to Kaliwa, Kanan, Laiban Dams,
(signed) Kriza Leaño UCCP-IDPIP Southern Tagalog, NO to KKLD Co-convenor
(signed) Teddy Casińo Water for the People Network, NO to KKLD Co-convenor
(signed) Jill Cariño Executive Director, Philippine Task Force Indigenous People’s Rights NO to KKLD Co-convenor
Is faith always intimately tied to the nation? The historical fact is that the relationship of faith to the modern concept of “nation” was not always thought to be a legitimate question by the majority of evangelical Christians after the Second World War. In the Philippines, for example, most evangelicals did not raise such a question at all, even though by the late 1990s the term “bayan” was popularized in a charismatic evangelical TV program. Prior to this, it is interesting that some nationalist-oriented groups have already claimed, at least since the 1970s, that the concept of “bayan” strikes a deeper chord in the psyche of the Filipino, than the foreign concept of “nation”.Nevertheless, given the above claim concerning the deeper cultural register of “bayan”, it is striking that very little theological reflection has been done by evangelicals on the relation of their faith to their “bayan”. This is generally true in both the evangelical seminaries and churches in the Philippines. As one observer puts it: “Do Christians sincerely believe that in prioritizing the concerns of church multiplication, such an approach will automatically solve the problems of their bayan?” And this, to say the least, may initially frame the problematic evangelical view on “faith and bayan”.In response to this, we are happy to announce that a group of evangelical scholars and practitioners have come together precisely to tackle the multidimensional theme of “faith and bayan”. We therefore invite the public to join us in this series of webinars, as our presenters respond to some of the key theological questions and social issues raised in relation to our central theme. We hope that this will spark a sustained conversation, not only among evangelicals, but also among our kababayans.Join us, every Monday of October and November, at 7:30 PM as we come together in conversation to talk about this important issue. We will stream live on the following pages: Faith and Bayan KapeTheo TruthorDare LAPIS CrossCurrents Philippines Bawat Isa Mahalaga Coalition for Justice
One Faith, One Nation, One Voice September 30, 2020
October 3, 2020, Saturday | 10:00AM – 12:00NN via Zoom and FB Live
In his 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) President Rodrigo Duterte asked Congress to reinstate the Death Penalty for violators of the Anti-drug law. Following the events in the President’s Anti-Drug war, his promotion of the death penalty is still anti-poor which will only add to the pile of extrajudicial deaths in the Philippines and continued total disregard for civil rights and human lives.
In this youth-led forum, we will take a closer look of legality and ethical aspect of death penalty. As believers in the redeeming love of Christ, we must continue to bear witness to Christ’s promise of abundant life manifested in justice and peace. Now is a time for the Christian faithful to deepen our resolve to choose life, to uphold life. In the face of a looming effort to reinstitute capital punishment in the Philippines, it is urgent for us to make known our call for the strengthening of justice system toward rehabilitation and restoration of persons. We seek redemption and restorative processes, rather than an intensification of a culture of retribution, violence and death in our society.
