Psycho-social transformation
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 …
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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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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 …
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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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Our dream is to see one Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Community in each of the 80 provinces in the Philippines by the year 2020. This dream is spiritually motivated and is technically planned. We call this dream Vision 2020. The dream was borne out of a spiritual realization that the church can, and must, be …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/04/20/the-dream-of-par-community-multiplication-is-being-realized/
According to the Christian Church’s traditional commemoration of the Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross, the fifth saying was, “I am thirsty.” The story was taken from the Gospel of St. John, chapter 19, and verses 28-29: Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus …
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Dedicated to Lele, LJ, Byron and their loved-ones whom I love so much. :: My fatherly-instincts — toughness, determination, and leadership presence — are very important for the survival and security of my family. Such instincts, however, need to be balanced and enhanced with motherly instincts — love, care, and listening heart. :: I must …
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