Tag: Bangsamoro Basic Law

PRAYING FOR OUR LAWMAKERS AS THEY DELIBERATE ON THE BANGSAMORO BASIC LAW

While praying for peace, I joined the civil society organizations in Davao City who gathered together to publicly support the Bangsamoro Basic Law. Here, I was responding to a couple of interview questions by a local television reporter.

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WE HELPED FACILITATE AN EVANGELICAL DISCUSSION ON CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM PEACE PROCESS

06 April 2015. The Philippine Council of Evangelical Church gathered around 200 Christian leaders from all over the country to talk about the controversial Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL). Together with the peace negotiating panels from both the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), PCEC and PBCI spearheaded a forum dubbed …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2015/04/10/we-helped-facilitate-evangelical-discussion-on-christian-muslim-peace-process/

SO HAPPY THAT THE BBL IS NOW IN THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

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 — …

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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/09/10/so-happy-that-the-bbl-is-now-in-the-legislative-branch/

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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Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/08/20/our-support-for-the-bangsamoro-is-based-on-a-spiritual-perspective/

OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

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