Spiritual Transformation
A few hours ago, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III submitted the Draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) to Congress as an urgent bill. Although we have celebrated the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) which is a politically negotiated document, BBL is a legislative and legal document that will be open to scrutiny of all — …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/09/10/so-happy-that-the-bbl-is-now-in-the-legislative-branch/
Through the visionary leadership of Twinkle “Tala” Alngag Bautista, the Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) movement is being nurtured among the indigenous people in the northern mountains of the Philippines called Kalinga. :: In 12-16 April 2010, Dann Pantoja felt a need to travel to Tabuk City, the capital of Kalinga Province, to get to know …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/09/03/pbci-continues-to-journey-with-the-kalinga-first-nation/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/20/our-support-for-the-bangsamoro-is-based-on-a-spiritual-perspective/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/16/the-internally-displaced-persons-in-zamboanga-almost-a-year-later/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/08/a-quiet-dinner-with-sec-ging-deles-and-other-peacebuilders/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/04/listening-to-praying-for-both-gph-and-milf-peace-panels/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/07/30/im-on-guard-as-aquinos-2015-inclusive-growth-budget-is-advanced/
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