Tag: 2020

REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO SERVE THE DOWNTRODDEN AND THE LEAST PRIVILEGED

REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO SERVE THE DOWNTRODDEN AND THE LEAST PRIVILEGED

As leaders of the Church, we abhor such act of falsehood even as we also call on the accusers and those behind their action to stop besmirching our church, our members and church workers. As the Prophet Isaiah puts it, in Isaiah 5:18: “Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope…”

WHOEVER MAKES A PRACTICE OF SINNING IS OF THE DEVIL

WHOEVER MAKES A PRACTICE OF SINNING IS OF THE DEVIL

The COUNCIL OF BISHOPS of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines strongly abhors the most recent spiteful tagging of our fellow Bishop and Council of Bishops member, Bishop Hamuel G. Tequis of UCCP-Southeast Mindanao Jurisdictional Area (SEMJA) as a CPP member as contained in a propaganda poster posted near the building of Sta. Ana Catholic Church in Davao City, seen early
morning, August 13, 2020 by concerned witnesses. Copies of the same poster are
placed in electrical poles near the same area in Davao City.

STATEMENT ON THE 5TH STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS (SONA)

STATEMENT ON THE 5TH STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS (SONA)

Come July 27, President Duterte will surely give us an entirely different picture of our situation as a nation to lure the people into believing that the whole country is in good hands under his administration, although this claim is verified at the ground level where we have lived through the reality of the impact of the pandemic. How the government carried out its kind of responses to the worsening situation of the people or neglected the poor and the marginalized are judged by the people and history itself.