Actual events when individuals and communities experience shalom transformation
As a new PAR community is building up in Kalinga, please allow us to share the stories of some of our friends and partners there. They will allow the readers to get to know them and the culture that they live in. For a tribe with a reputation of fierce warriors and head hunters, the …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/09/daughter-of-two-peace-pact-holders/
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 …
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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 …
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I am also you and you are me we are one and we belong to each other for we are brothers aren’t we? Please don’t kill me, brother! I also have a family my wife Sarah Kadijah, my daughters Rebecca Merriam and Rachel and my little boy Salaam — we’re a poor family — peasants …
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We, who are also citizens of the world, brothers and sisters here in the Philippines, are calling on all peoples of the world to protest Israel’s military attack in Gaza. More than a thousand had already died. Children and women included. There are also innocent civilians who died in the fighting between Israeli and Hamas troops. …
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This week, we are witnessing the tail-end of the 17-year peace process between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Right now, both the GPH and the MILF Peace Panels are in the middle of their 10-hour per day workshop for 10 days, August 01-10, rolling their sleeves up …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/08/10-days-toward-a-mutually-agreed-text-of-the-bbl-a-peace-workers-personal-journal/
Justice and peace are major aspects of the character of YHWH–the God of Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob.In the Tanak (Old Testament), YHWH implemented Divine Discipline among all nations: blessings to those who obey God’s justice and peace; curses to those who violated God’s justice and peace, including Israel. We believe in the YHWH-statement in …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/07/gods-covenant-with-abraham-is-meant-to-bless-all-nations/
As we are getting deeply immersed in divided communities because of unresolved conflicts, the more we are becoming aware of the need for inclusive economic development as a critical aspect of our peace and reconciliation mission. Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) is the heart of our ministry. Our concept of peace — from the Hebrew term …
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PBCI VOLUNTEERS ARE PEACEBUILDING MISSIONARIES Becoming a PBCI member means you’re joining as a volunteer. As one of our volunteers, we assume that you have a sense of mission to advance justice and peace within you and around you. PBCI is a community of missionaries. We are people who are experiencing this sense of calling to …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/06/pbci-enhances-membership-qualification-and-training/
“Flood rescue operations is now a crucial ministry of our church to our neighborhood and even to our municipality,” said Pastor Paul Villamor, a survivor of super-typhoon Haiyan and one of the organizers of a local disaster response network being facilitated by PeaceBuilders Community Inc. (PBCI). “Because of the disasters we’ve been experiencing, we are …
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Sidlak. To shine. Kalinaw. Peace. We are seeing the dawn of a strategic, justice-oriented, sustainable peacebuilding which will radiate from, and through, our particular context of transformation-advocacy. Inspired by this vision, a new social enterprise is being born. It has a five-pronged bottom line — people, progress, planet, peace, and profit. Sidlak Kalinaw is a …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/06/bukidnon-par-community-starts-sidlak-kalinaw-an-inclusive-growth-initiative/
These last two years, the recurring events and disasters (typhoons, earthquakes, skirmishes) had kept our teams very busy. In 2013, the team decided to pass on the retreat and save the money for Pablo survivors instead. But now in 2014 we were really missing the fellowship, especially that our various teams are more and more …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/05/pbci-cfp-staff-holds-community-retreat-after-two-major-disasters/
Together with Mennonite Church Canada Witness and our international peacebuilding partners, we journey in companionship, nurturing relationships that strengthen our collective commitment to justice, reconciliation, and lasting peace.
