Engineering was Alkuino’s love from an early age, but his parents urged him to study agriculture so that he could take charge of the family farm. After earning his degree at the University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Agriculture, Alkuino dutifully returned to Valencia to cultivate corn. But when a seven-month drought caused the loss …
PASTOR MANNY’S BRICKMAKING TECHNOLOGY (PART 1 OF 2)
- By Jonathan Cranston
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24.March.2015
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24.March.2015
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/03/brickmaking-ministry-part-1/
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND THE MENNONITES: FROM PANAMA TO THE PHILIPPINES
- By Arthur J. Block
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27.February.2015
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27.February.2015
One of the most distressing calls for justice around the world today comes from the Indigenous voice. Amplified by the indignities suffered through historic theft and displacement of their life and land, their marginalization today is a story told to many but heard by few. As the world changes so must they, but how they …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/indigenous-rights-and-the-mennonites-from-panama-to-the-philippines/
STRENGTHENING OUR RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CORDILLERAS
- By Jonathan Cranston
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26.February.2015
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26.February.2015
On Monday the 16th, after attending the spectacular Awong Chi Gangsa ceremony, we enjoyed an afternoon of good fellowship at the Grand Zion Hotel. Darnell, Regina and Bryan from PeaceChurch; Twinkle’s mother, grandmother, and cousins; and Kuya Dann talked of all their dreams and plans for PeaceChurch in Manila, and for Twinkle’s PAR network …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/strengthening-our-relationship-in-the-cordilleras/
A LECTURE IN KALINGA HISTORY
- By Jonathan Cranston
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26.February.2015
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26.February.2015
In Tabuk City, on Saturday the 14th, we met with the farmers of Asimbanglan. Hart and Ginny Wiens hosted the meeting, and they helped us to explain to the farmers that it had never been our intention to mislead them or to leave them hanging. Kuya Dann gave the farmers a rundown of the many …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/cordillera-listening-tour-part-4-feb-14-15/
ATTENDING THE BODONG CONGRESS
- By Jonathan Cranston
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26.February.2015
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26.February.2015
After listening to the public employee’s hopes for the Cordillera Region, Twinkle, Kuya Dann and I shared an evening of fellowship with Twinkle’s grandmother’s sister and her family in their Baguio home. That night, we boarded a bus for the City of Tabuk in Kalinga Province. On the morning of Thursday the 12th we arrived …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/cordillera-listening-tour-part-3-feb-12-13/
CATCHING UP WITH MANONG MAR
- By Jonathan Cranston
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26.February.2015
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26.February.2015
On the morning of Tuesday the 10th we were back on the bus, heading for San Fernando, La Union. In San Fernando we had lunch with PBCI’s Senior Consultant Dr. Mariano C. Apilado “Manong Mar.” We told him about our meetings in Bangued the previous day, and he commended the new relationships we had …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/cordillera-listening-tour-part-2-feb-10-11/
CORDILLERAN LEADERS SHARE THEIR STORIES WITH PBCI
- By Jonathan Cranston
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26.February.2015
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26.February.2015
In the mid-morning of Saturday, February 7th, I and PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) CEO Rev. Dann Pantoja (Kuya Dann to me) boarded a bus in Manila bound for Baguio City. It was the start of PeaceBuilders’ February 2015 Listening Tour in the Cordillera Region, with objectives which I have previously detailed. We spent the night of the 7th at the Baguio Village …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/cordillera-listening-tour-part-1-feb-7-9/
LISTENING TO THE TINGGUIANS OF ABRA
- By Jonathan Cranston
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10.February.2015
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10.February.2015
Since the 8th of this month, PeaceBuilders CEO Rev. Daniel Pantoja and I have been traveling around the Cordillera region of northern Luzon under the guidance of PeaceBuilders’ own native Cordilleran missionary Twinkle Alngag Bautista. One major objective of our sojourn in the North is to listen and take note of the concerns and aspirations of Cordillerans — particularly those who …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/02/listening-to-the-tingyens-of-abra/
PBCI MOURNS FOR THOSE KILLED IN MAMASAPANO CLASH
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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30.January.2015
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30.January.2015
We at PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the 44 men of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force, and also to the families of the 16 members of the Moro community, who lost their lives in Mamasapano, Maguindano during a tragic clash in the pre-dawn hours of 25 January 2015. As …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/01/pbci-mourns-for-the-mamasapano-victims/
VOICES FROM THE DULANGAN MANOBO FILE
- By Jonathan Cranston
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27.January.2015
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27.January.2015
Among the stacks of case files in the archives of PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) is a fat plastic folder labeled “Dulangan Manobo Farmers,” and stuffed with dozens of documents given to PBCI over the years by the leaders and representatives of the Dulangan Manobo tribe of Sultan Kudarat Province, Mindanao. Some of the documents are …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/01/voices-from-the-dulangan-manobo-file/
RELIEF OPERATIONS ON PACE IN EASTERN SAMAR
- By Arthur J. Block
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22.January.2015
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22.January.2015
Disaster Response Networks (DRN’s) coordinated and led by PBCI relief operations trainer Kriz Cruzado have been traveling around Eastern Samar distributing aid since December 19th. As the area was hit by Tropical Storm Seniang in late December, regional needs have ramped up from the already high level caused by Typoon Hagupit. This has not stopped …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/01/relief-operations-on-pace-in-eastern-samar/
A DIFFERENCE OF PERSPECTIVE: NATURAL DISASTERS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- By Arthur J. Block
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09.January.2015
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09.January.2015
Recently, I have been tasked with researching the history of the CPP-NPA, or the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People’s Army. Under the banner of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, there has been a communist presence in the Philippines for over 40 years now, and they have been waging …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/01/a-difference-of-perspectiv-natural-disasters-and-social-justice/
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