Perhaps, the only way a good thing can happen is by taking a risk. That means opening one’s self to the possibility of failure, and being utterly vulnerable. This was the case when our group of Evangelical Christian peace theologians and missionaries headed by PCEC National Director, Bishop Noel Pantoja, travelled to Midsayap, North Cotabato …
BIBLICAL PEACEBUILDING IS TAKING A RISK TO LOVE LIKE JESUS
- By Dr. Aldrin Penamora
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02.December.2015
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02.December.2015
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/12/biblical-peacebuilding-taking-a-risk-like-jesus/
BUKIDNON COFFEE PROCESSING FACILITY IS SET
- By Joji Felicitas "Bai Kasunayan" Pantoja
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28.November.2015
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28.November.2015
The Opportunity. PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) has been organizing Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Communities in armed conflicted areas of Mindanao and throughout the Philippines for the past 10 years. A major aspect of this PAR community development is the establishment of inclusive growth initiatives. Coffee growing, processing, and marketing is the most sustainable livelihood program …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/11/bukidnon-shared-service-facility-for-coffee-processing-is-set/
BAGOBO TRIBAL COMMUNITY AND LOCAL FARMERS INVITE PBCI-CFP FOR CONSULTATION
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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17.November.2015
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17.November.2015
14-16 November 2015. The Managa Tribal Council (MTC) and the Balutakay Coffee Farmers Association (BaCoFA) invited PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) and Coffee For Peace (CFP) for a series of consultations. With the guidance of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), the discussion revolved around the socio-cultural procedures and legal steps towards an inclusive development …
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CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM THEOLOGIANS INITIATE DIALOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS
- By Bennette Grace Tenecio-Mañulit
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01.November.2015
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01.November.2015
The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) headed by its National Director, Bishop Noel Pantoja, together with a group of Evangelical theologians and professors had an interfaith dialogue with a group of Muslim religious leaders, professors, and Shari’a jurists headed by Ustadz Abdulkadir Abubakar. This was held last 24-25 October 2015 at the Southern Christian College in Midsayap, …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/11/christian-and-muslim-theologians-initiate-dialogical-relationships/
COFFEE FOR PEACE RECEIVES AWARD FROM UNDP AND N-PEACE NETWORK
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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24.October.2015
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24.October.2015
21-23 October 2015. Joji Pantoja, CEO of Coffee For Peace (CFP), received an N-Peace Award from the United Nations Development Program – Impact Investment Exchange Asia (UNDP-IIXAsia) in behalf of the women who comprise the 80 percent of the farming farmers of CFP. The N-Peace Awards Ceremony was held at One UN Hotel, New York, …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/10/coffee-for-peace-receives-award-from-n-peace-network-and-undp/
PBCI CELEBRATES WITH TALAANDIG’S “FEED 10,000 JOURNEY”
- By Tala Alngag Bautista
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14.October.2015
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14.October.2015
PBCI celebrates with the first year milestone of the “Feed 10,000 Journey” of the Talaandig Tribe The Talaandig tribe celebrated its first-year milestone of what it considers as a revolutionary effort against conventional farming and food systems. In 2014, the Talaandig started the “Feed 10,000 Journey” which aims to feed 10,000 people in a month. …
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NAIL CUTTER: A FRIENDSHIP TOOL
- By Christine Sumog-oy
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04.October.2015
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04.October.2015
When I thought that after seven years of experience in peace work in Mindanao I have encountered most of existing tools to build peace and forge friendships, I discovered a new one which does not require strategic plans, logframes, or theories of change. It can be immediately used and implemented, easily accessed at home, and …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/10/nail-cutter-a-friendship-tool/
DANN & JOJI PANTOJA OFF TO NORTH AMERICAN MINISTRY
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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25.September.2015
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25.September.2015
Every three years, Dann & Joji Pantoja, the lead peace and reconciliation missionaries at PeaceBuilders Community, are assigned to speak at various church organizations, inter-faith gatherings, peace advocacy groups, and academic institutions. The Pantojas arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia in the evening of 10 September. Joji will be back in Davao on the second week …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/09/dann-joji-pantoja-off-to-north-american-ministry/
JOBELYN BASAS REPRESENTS PBCI TO PEACEBUILDING PARTNERS
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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17.September.2015
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17.September.2015
Jobelyn Palo Basas is our new local intern. We call her “Jobey.” She obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Community Development from Southern Christian College, Midsayap, Cotabato. Prior to coming to PBCI, she served as a psycho-social worker in an organization advocating and working for children’s rights. She has good working skills in dealing …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/09/jobelyn-basas-represents-pbci-to-peacebuilding-partners/
QUEENIE LIWAT CAMPAIGNS FOR PEACE IN NORTH COTABATO
- By Jonathan Cranston
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09.September.2015
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09.September.2015
Queenilyn Liwat grew up listening for gunfire. In her hometown of Banisilan, North Cotabato, she and her friends learned from an early age how to survive in a warzone. “Whenever there are gunshots, even if we are afraid, we have to be brave and alert, or else we will die like the others. There’s only …
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KRIZ CRUZADO MENTORS RESCUERS, SERVANTS
- By Jonathan Cranston
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18.August.2015
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18.August.2015
The drenched and shivering young woman cast her eyes frantically back and forth over the beach where the rescue volunteers had laid her down after pulling her from the breakers. “Where’s my mother?” she sobbed, “Oh, help! Someone, please find my mother!” She cried so piteously that one of the rescuers momentarily forgot all her …
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A CFP BARISTA’S INTERFAITH FRIENDSHIPS
- By Jonathan Cranston
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11.August.2015
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11.August.2015
In 2009, when she had worked for two years at the Davao City café operated by Coffee For Peace (CFP), Catherine Moreno Olitao received the offer of a job in Cotabato City, on the opposite coast of the island of Mindanao. The offer came from a Moro lady of importance named Bai Jehan Baraguir, whose …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/08/a-cfp-baristas-interfaith-friendships/
WE’RE SET TO PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF PAR LEADERS
MORE PAR STORIES
- A REFLECTION ON IRAN’S ATTACK ON ISRAEL: PERSPECTIVES FROM A PEACEBUILDING WORKER IN MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES 15.April.2024
- NOTES AND REFLECTIONS ON HON. MOHAGHER IQBAL’S 2024 STATUS REPORT ON THE COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT ON THE BANGSAMORO 31.March.2024
- MILF RECOGNIZES PBCI FOR OUR “UNWAVERING SUPPORT TO THE BANGSAMORO PEACE PROCESS” 27.March.2024
- JOJI SPEAKS AT THE SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES TO PROMOTE SENATE BILL 782, ALSO KNOWN AS “THE PRESENT BILL” 13.March.2024
- THROUGH PRAYERS AND RITUAL OF UNITY, WE CELEBRATED OUR KINSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES OF MINDANAO 11.March.2024
- JOJI PANTOJA SEES HER VISION OF MULTIPLYING ETHICS-ORIENTED SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS THROUGH PAR FRAMEWORK 23.February.2024
- WE PARTICIPATED IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE 22ND FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY OF THE MINDANAO PEOPLES’ CAUCUS 15.February.2024
- TOP SIX COFFEE PRODUCERS FROM LANAO DEL SUR RECEIVE ADVANCED ‘FARMERPRENEURIAL’ TRAINING 31.January.2024
- ALONG WITH OUR COLLEAGUES, WE WELCOME THE RESUMPTION OF THE NDF-GPH PEACE TALKS 19.January.2024
- ‘2023 CHRISTMAS’ IS MORE OF A COMMEMORATION THAN A CELEBRATION 26.December.2023
- PBCI-CFP FAMILY HOLDS ‘DAY OF GRATITUDE’: TO THE CREATOR, TO THE JOURNEY OF BECOMING, TO OUR COMMUNITY, TO THE CREATION 19.December.2023
- JUSTICE-BASED PEACEBUILDING IN THE FACE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM MINDANAO 24.November.2023
- OUR SPEAKING AND MEETING TOUR ACROSS CANADA WAS ENRICHING AND ENERGIZING 15.November.2023
- CHRISTIAN ZIONISM IS COMPLICIT IN THE 75-YEAR OPPRESSIVE ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE 23.October.2023
- THE ‘MALIPAYON PEACE HUB’ CONSTRUCTION IS ON TARGET AND WITHIN BUDGET 05.October.2023
- NAVIGATING TROUBLED WATERS: PHILIPPINE-CHINA DISPUTE ON WEST PHILIPPINE SEA 27.September.2023
- HARMONIZING PBCI’S WORLDVIEW WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ SUSTAINABLE AND REGENERATIVE WAY OF LIFE 15.September.2023
- PBCI-CFP INCLUDEV TEAM EXPLORES PARTNERSHIP WITH P.I.N. IN COFFEE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT IN BASILAN, SULU, AND TAWI-TAWI 31.August.2023