Interfaith reflection forum

and the church response

on the intensified repression

Kidapawan City

August 21, 2006  

Posted: August 27, 2006

The intensified political repression in the country was the subject of a whole-day theological reflection/and church response  forum sponsored by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and the Cotabato Regional Ecumenical Council (COREC) in Kidapawan City last August 21, 2006.

Participating in the forum were some 70 church workers and Moro leaders from Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sarangani Province, Maguindanao and Cotabato City.

Karapatan Southern Mindanao Region discussed the rising political repression in the country.

Boshop Danilo Bustamante of Episcopal Diocese of
Southern Philippines

Amira Ali Lidasan of Moro-Christian Poeples Alliance delivers her response as a Bangsamoro

Rev. Ernie Ramos of United Methodist Church

Photos courtesy of:

Cotabato Regional Ecumenical Council (COREC)

Tungkol sa Kamatayan

ng isang Mandirigma ng Kapayapaan

Ni Bertolt Brecht
Salin sa Filipino ni Jose F. Lacaba
(Sa alaala ni Carl von Ossietzky*)

Siya na ayaw sumuko
Ay pinatay na.
Siya na pinatay
Ay ayaw sumuko.
 

Ang bibig ng tumutuligsa
Ay pinasakan ng lupa.
Nagsisimula na
Ang madugong digmaan.
 

Sa ibabaw ng libingan ng isang nagmahal sa kapayapaan
Nagmamartsa ang mga batalyon.
Kung gayon, wala bang saysay ang pakikibaka?
Kung pinatay siya na hindi mag-isang nakibaka,
Ang kaaway
Ay hindi pa nagtatagumpay.

(Padala ng Concerned Artists of the Philippines)

Kelly Delgado of KARAPATAN Southern Mindanao discusses the intensified political repression in the country

Rev. Reuben Genotiva of UCCP Kidapawan City gives
a Biblio-Theological Reflection on the rising
political repression.

Among the participants in the theological reflection are members of the  United Methodist Church-Church and Society Program, United Methodist Church-Mlang Cotabato, United Church of Christ in the Philippines-Kidapawan City, United Church of Christ in the Philippines-Cotabato Annual Conference and South Cotabato/Sarangani Annual Conference, Tribal Filipino Program-Diocese of Kidapawan, Rio Grande Interfaith Solidarity, PALMA Interfaith Solidairty, Interfaith Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Justice, Peace Integrrity of Creation-Arakan Parish, Kidapawan Parish Team, Southern Philippines Methodist College- College of Theology, and the members from Moro community who are among the beneficiaries of the NCCP.