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Norway Representatives Laud Church Peace Efforts in PH on the cover contents These Manobo children together with their community and parents seek shelter at Haran Center of the United Church ‘’Peace Be With You!’’ 3 of Christ in the Philippines in Davao City due to the mili- tarization in the countryside affecting their community in Talaingod, Davao del Norte. February 2020. (KATH CORTEZ/DAVAOTODAY.COM) Center Human Dignity in Resolving Unpeace in PH 4 Resume Peace Talks: 18 A Resounding Call Churches Urged to Join 8 National Lament Day on May 2 BTR: Celebrating 500 years of Christianity amid Challenges 20 Norway Representatives Laud 9 of Unpeace and Uncertainty Church Efforts in PH Hopes for Peace 22 Pursuing Peace: Bridging Dialogue 11 Statement on the 9th Ecumenical 24 ATA Worsens Shrinking Church Leaders’ Summit Democratic Space in PH 13 PASTORAL STATEMENT FBO-PH Condemns Harassment Respect for Human Rights 25 on Humanitarian Missions 16 and God’s Gift of Human Dignity The Editorial Board peacebuilder THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER The Rt. Rev. Rex B. Reyes, Jr. PHILIPPINE ECUMENICAL PEACE PLATFORM Editor in Chief Peace Builder is a quarterly newsletter Archbishop Emeritus Antonio of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform J. Ledesma SJ, DD Mervin Sol H. Toquero with editorial offices at: Associate Editor Pastor Carlton James Palm Ofelia A. Cantor 2nd floor NCCP Building Cesar Villanueva Circulation Manager 879 Epifanio de Los Santos Avenue Bishop Emeritus Deogracias S. Iniguez, Jr. Grace Cantal-Albasin cor. EDSA and Quezon Avenue Bishop Noel A. Pantoja Editorial Assistants Facebook: Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform Sr. Mary John Mananzan, OSB Email: [email protected] Editorial Consultants January - March 2021/ Volume 3 Issue No. 1 Contact No: 0927-6303392 PHILIPPINE ECUMENICAL“Because PEACE everyone PLATFORM will work for justice, there will be peace and security forever.” - Isaiah 32:17 2 JANUARY - MARCH 2021 / VOLUME 3 ISSUE NO. 1 peacebuilder THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER “Peace Be With You!” EDITORIAL HE EASTER greeting of the Resurrected Christ year, the Whole-of-Nation Approach involving to his astonished apostles also jolts us out of all government agencies created a National Task Tour ordinary lives. Is this true? Can someone Force to oversee the program called Ending Local from the dead bring us true peace? What about his Communist Armed Conflict (NTC-ELCAC). With imprisonment, his mock trial, scourging, crowning the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act in with thorns, being nailed on the cross and pierced 2020 (despite 45 formal objections filed and pend- on his side? The crowds saw him carrying his cross, ing before the Supreme Court), the law has been a few faithful followers made sure he was buried in a “weaponized” against any dissenter, using a dan- secure tomb. How could he rise from the dead? gerous, vague definition of the word “terrorist.” Indeed, the revelation of Christ’s resurrection This resulted to increase in red-tagging and killing confronts and continues to challenge us today. If he of advocates of human rights creating another cli- did suffer and die for our salvation and the re-birth mate of fear, in addition to the numerous extrajudi- of a new world, why then do we still witness the cial killings of suspected drug addicts. suffering of so many people today — the false tes- It is in this light that we asked ourselves at the timonies and mock trials, the summary killings, the recent PEPP Peace Summit of Religious Leaders nailing on the cross of public opinion, the violence what the role of religious communities should be. against peasants, workers and lumad communities First, we affirm “the transcendent dignity of the hu- and the continued communist insurgency of more man person.” Pope Francis in his encyclical, ‘’Fratel- than 50 years. li Tutti,’’ explains this: every person as “the visible In Bukidnon alone, we are told that 63 lumad image of the invisible God, is therefore by his very leaders have been killed with impunity over the nature the subject of rights that no one may violate past six years; many of these datus were fighting for — no individual, group, class, nation or state” (No. their ancestral domain claims. In the BARMM area, 273). we receive reports of non-Moro indigenous people Second, our religious communities should con- communities being harassed from their ancestral front justice issues and together with government lands with some of their leaders also being killed. and local communities address the root causes of In Panay, the plight of the Tumandok tribal commu- injustice — ranging from ancestral domain claims to nity with nine of their leaders tortured and killed is lack of basic services to encroachment of multina- still under investigation. We also receive reports of tional corporations and destruction of the environ- some armed groups or ordinary bandits destroying ment. Extreme poverty in remote areas is a scandal farm equipment in Negros Occidental and Claveria, in modern societies that have the means to commu- Misamis Oriental. Some are engaging in extortion nicate instantly across the globe. activities, victimizing small businesses and ordinary Third, we continue to work for peace and the households in the Agusan provinces. We also hear of resumption of peace talks. There can be no peace the bombing of a sitio in Anakan, Gingoog City, and without development, and there can be no develop- sporadic encounters between government forces ment without peace. But there can be no peace and and the New People’s Army. development without good governance. And good Can the clouds of war and unrest give way to governance entails the rule and implementation of what the Psalmist envisions: that “Justice and Peace just laws in the land. In this regard, as religious lead- have embraced; Mercy and Faithfulness have met” ers, we need to accompany and listen carefully to the (Ps 85)? victims of violence in local communities. At the beginning of the Duterte administration This edition of “Peace Builder,” the quarterly in June 2016, there were bright hopes that a com- news magazine of PEPP, is testimony to our peace- prehensive peace agreement could be reached be- making efforts as it focuses on the gathering of tween the Government of the Republic of the Phil- church leaders, clergy and nuns and the laity and ippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front youth at the annual Ecumenical Church Leaders’ of the Philippines (NDFP). However, after four suc- Summit on Peace. It may give us the feeling that we cessive rounds of negotiations in Europe, the peace are “running a marathon in the mud,” but our faith in process was abruptly terminated in May 2017. the Risen Lord urges us on. Instead, an increasing atmosphere of polariza- As the Apostle Paul reminds us: “Let us then tion crept in with the labeling of the CPP/NDFP/ pursue what leads to peace and to building up one NPA as “terrorist organizations.” In the following another (Romans 14:19).’’ n PHILIPPINE ECUMENICAL PEACE PLATFORM 3 JANUARY - MARCH 2021 / VOLUME 3 ISSUE NO. 1 peacebuilder THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER Center Human Dignity in Resolving Unpeace in PH NPEACE in the Philippines, marred with a widespread Udisregard for God’s gift of human dignity, is wreaking havoc on unarmed individuals amid this global health crisis that has put the world on its knees. This alarming rate of killings prompted church leaders around the country to hold a virtual peace summit on February 18 and 19, 2021 to push for measures in putting a halt to the wanton dis- respect to human lives. On its first day, Bishop Emer- itus Deogracias S. Iniguez, Jr., the head of the Philippine Ecu- menical Peace Platform (PEPP) secretariat, walked the partic- ipants through the direction of the event. He said the gathering should muster unity on principled negotiations putting human dig- nity at the core of the discourse Bishop Emeritus Diogracias S. Iniguez, Jr., head of PEPP secretariat, acknowledges participants on just peace while amplifying the and situates them on the objectives of the Summit on February 18, 2021. prophetic voices to sustain the call and work for just peace and understanding the Filipino con- These are, Dr. Matsuno said, resumption of the peace talks and flict.’’ He also cited how the pan- important to any solutions to con- for the churches to be proactive demic has made physical gather- flict as he expressed worries over in responding to the challenges of ing difficult, yet it did not deter the situation in the Philippines the times. PEPP to push the online peace where attacks of human rights Valuing Dialogue summit through the virtual plat- defenders have worsened. ‘’Civil- Ambassador of the Royal Nor- form. ians in conflict situations must be wegian Embassy in Manila, H.E. For his part, Akihisa Matsu- protected by all possible means.” Bjorn Staurset Jahnsen, thanked no, Ph.D., of Osaka University in He lauded the religious com- PEPP for the work it has been do- Japan who teaches International munities in the country for their ing for peace which the ambassa- Politics and specializes on Con- long and extraordinary commit- dor described as often challeng- flict Studies cited that democracy ment and dedication to human ing, as he added, ‘’We value our and human rights are principles dignity and justice and the vibrant dialogue and conversations with that the professor always up- civil society has inspired the oth- you, and the insights you bring to holds. er countries in Asia-Pacific. PHILIPPINE ECUMENICAL PEACE PLATFORM 4 JANUARY - MARCH 2021 / VOLUME 3 ISSUE NO. 1 peacebuilder THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER sisters and citizens of one world called to a relationship of love and care for one another forging social friendship that excludes no one and a fraternity that is open to all where love of God and love of neighbor - the two great com- mandments of God, manifests re- gardless of religions,’’ he added.
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