Category: PEACE WITH THE CREATOR

Spiritual Transformation

OUR SUPPORT FOR THE BANGSAMORO IS BASED ON A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE

The positive attitude of PeaceBuilders Community towards the Bangsamoro is energized by our peace theology. While being supportive and actively praying for the success of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), our hope for the future goes beyond politically negotiated agreements and beyond legislative acts …

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THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN ZAMBOANGA ALMOST A YEAR LATER

Our small team from Peacebuilders Community was here during the 2013 Zamboanga Crisis to help in fact-finding and to help train and organize a group of Christian leaders to be a part of a larger peacebuilding network. Today, 11 months after, I visited the grandstand where some 75,000 internally displaced persons were jampacked “temporarily” as …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/16/the-internally-displaced-persons-in-zamboanga-almost-a-year-later/

A QUIET DINNER WITH SEC. GING DELES AND OTHER PEACEBUILDERS

Had a great conversation with Sec. Teresita “Ging” Quintos-Deles (Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process) over dinner tonight, with other leaders of civil society organizations. Just before we finished our meal, I asked her: “So, in your assessment, please rate the status of the GPH-MILF workshop on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) at this moment …

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LISTENING TO, PRAYING FOR, BOTH GPH AND MILF PEACE PANELS

I heard both chairs of the GPH and MILF Peace Panels along with my colleagues who belong to various Mindanao peace advocacy organizations. I also heard, and learned from, my colleagues’ questions and comments. I’m still trying to discern the balance between transparency and confidentiality — which are both needed in the tail-end of a …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/04/listening-to-praying-for-both-gph-and-milf-peace-panels/

I’M ON-GUARD AS AQUINO’S 2015 INCLUSIVE GROWTH BUDGET IS ADVANCED

So the President is advancing his 2015 Inclusive Growth Budget. Inclusive Growth is our current emphasis at Peacebuilders Community. Along with my team, I support the president’s vision for inclusive growth. At the same time, there’s a couple of deeper discernment tasks we have to continue doing to make this growth genuinely inclusive. We should …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/07/30/im-on-guard-as-aquinos-2015-inclusive-growth-budget-is-advanced/

MY REACTION TO PRESIDENT AQUINO’S SONA

The 2014 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno S. Aquino III is very emotionally appealing. Many statements are true. Some numbers look good. Well-prepared video anecdotes of his featured accomplishments. Compared to the past administrations between the dark era of the Marcos dictatorship, through Arroyo’s arrest for plunder charges, his is relatively …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/07/28/4248/

A PRAYER FOR ISRAEL, BASED ON THEIR BIBLICAL HISTORY

I’m saddened by the deaths happening in this conflict in Gaza. Here’s a report by The Guardian: Israel killed more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than in any other year since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in 1967, a UN report has said. Israel’s activities in the Gaza Strip, West Bank …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/07/15/a-prayer-for-israel-based-on-their-biblical-history/

OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

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