Category: Pastoral Statements

COUNCIL OF BISHOPS STATEMENT ON CHARTER CHANGE

COUNCIL OF BISHOPS STATEMENT ON CHARTER CHANGE

The UCCP Council of Bishops maintains that the fundamental articles of the Philippine Constitution of 1987 sufficiently address the range of issues and problems that are present in the nation’s current political, economic, and cultural environment… Several current laws and statutes can promote economic growth, but because economic progress is oriented toward neo-liberalism, economic inequality persists.

A CALL FOR CONTINUING VIGILANCE

A CALL FOR CONTINUING VIGILANCE

Red-tagged human rights and peasant organizations’ leaders and lawyers have suffered physical harm at the hands of government security forces and vigilantes; several have even lost their lives. A group of nuns and peasant women who were accused of supporting “terrorist activities” were among those who faced harassment.
Among the most obvious victims of abuses and violations of human rights in the Philippines are some of our own UCCP pastors, Rev. Nathaniel “Dodo” Vallente and Pastor Jimmie Teves…, who have been detained for over a year now on trumped up accusations, while Rev. Edwin Egar and Rev. Juliet Egar, and Ronal Ramos of UCCP Macalamcam are also facing Anti-Terrorism Law and Anti- Terrorism Financing Law cases.

IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND GOD’S GROANING CREATION

IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND GOD’S GROANING CREATION

We will actively work to oppose the powers and principalities that stand in the way of God’s intention for climate justice and the integrity of all of creation. We pledge to support indigenous peoples, struggling farming and fishing communities, and everyone else whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened by the effects of unpredictable weather patterns and other natural disasters brought on by aggressive development. We pray that God’s justice and peace rule over our nation and the entire world.