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THIS IS HOW I PRAY FOR THE PHILIPPINES THESE DAYS

A prayer for peace for my beloved people in this beautiful land, especially these days when our people are so divided and the horizon seems to be too dark:   For the success of the Duterte government in its vision to fight against corruption, criminality, and drugs; for the determination of the government to stop …

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BONIFACIO DAY, GENUINE LAND REFORM, AND THE GOSPEL OF PEACE

This afternoon, I celebrated the 153rd birthday of Gat Andres Bonifacio — the founder of our people’s revolution against the oppressive Spanish and American colonial rule. I walked with, and listened to, a major people’s movement who have been consistently fighting for the liberation of our country from US imperialist militarization, and from the exploitative …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/11/30/bonifacio-day-genuine-land-reform-and-the-gospel-of-peace/

THE ART OF TRANSCENDING OUR OWN CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

How do we transcend the cycles of violence that bewitch our human community while still living in them? This is the basic question in John Paul Lederach’s book, The Moral Imagination (2005).  Moral refers to our mind’s capacity to create—to think, to reflect, and to act.  Imagination refers to our capacity to generate constructive processes …

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GOD’S BLESSINGS ARE USUALLY WRAPPED IN LIFE’S CHALLENGES

I’m excited! God’s new set of blessings are indeed wrapped in various degrees of challenges and seeming disappointments. And God is gracious and merciful! The gifts are being unwrapped before my amazed eyes from fear to courage, from sorrows to joy, from want to abundance, from crises to celebration! I was fearful because my field …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/05/08/gods-blessings-are-usually-wrapped-in-lifes-challenges/

TO THE GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARIES: GO BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE

We were dancing! We were celebrating the fact that last February 15-21, 2011, the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) resumed their peace talks. But last June 02, 2011,  Luis Jalandoni, Peace Panel Chairman of NDFP, proposed the postponement of their talks with GPH. The said talks is scheduled this month. Jalandoni communicated this …

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OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

We are sent by Mennonite Church Canada Witness in partnership with our international community.