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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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/
Between April 05 and 17, over 8,000 Philippine and American military personnel are participating in this year’s 29th Joint Exercises known as “Balikatan 2013”. Balikatan is a Pilipino term that translates to shoulder-to-shoulder. Both the US and the Philippine military forces make sure that they maintain inter-operability. Balikatan 2013 is Co- Directed by PH Major …
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