Psycho-social transformation
The Philippine economy is getting better, so the government says. According to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), “the Philippine economy posted a 7.8 percent GDP growth in the first quarter of 2013 from 6.5 percent the previous year. The Q1 growth is the highest so far under the Aquino administration and also the third consecutive …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/06/16/while-our-people-is-in-poverty-were-increasing-our-military-spending/
Our social business is small but its impact is getting bigger. According to the Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, a social business is “a non-loss, non-dividend company designed to address a social objective within the highly regulated marketplace of today. It is distinct from a non-profit because the business should seek to generate a modest …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/06/06/our-small-coffee-for-peace-is-making-a-bigger-impact/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/05/26/the-art-of-transcending-our-own-cycle-of-violence/
Cotabato City, May 14, 2013 — PCEC Bishop Efraim Tendero met with MILF Peace Panel Chairman Mohagher Iqbal this afternoon in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. Tendero asked Iqbal on how the Church can enhance its support to the GPH-MILF Peace Talks. Before answering Tendero’s question, Iqbal gave an update on the current state of the …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/05/14/pcec-bishop-listens-to-milf-on-how-to-enhance-churchs-support-to-peace-process/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/05/08/gods-blessings-are-usually-wrapped-in-lifes-challenges/
God, today, the First of May, I resonate with the voices of the oppressed labourers around the world–whether they labour in urban areas or in rural areas. I pray that the greedy systems of this world that continue to exploit the workers would eventually be dismantled and be replaced by farming, trade and industrial relationships …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/05/01/a-prayer-for-the-workers-of-the-world/
Twenty-one people finished the first quarter of the PeaceBuilders School of Leadership (PBSL) in Valencia City, Bukidnon from 24-26 April 2013. They are a group composed of peacebuilders, pastors, church leaders, missionaries and educators. It was designed as highly academic activity with the book “Mediation in Pastoral Care” as the main focus and the books …
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Honours and distinctions we received for excellence and impact
