12 Days of Christmas Reflection Series – Day 4 Luke 2:6-7 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them. […]
Author: Bishop Antonio Ablon
Bishop - The Filipino Chaplaincy in Europe, Coordinator - Europe Network for Justice and Peace in the Philippines; Former Diocesan Bishop, Diocese of Pagadian, Iglesia Filipina Independiente in Zamboanga del Sur, Western Mindanao. Former President of the Mindanao Bishops Conference, Former Regional Chairperson - KARAPATAN Western Mindanao.
The Trip to Bethlehem
12 Days of Christmas Reflection Series – Day 3 Luke 2:1-5 1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to […]
“I am the Lord’s servant, may your word to me be fulfilled.”
12 Days of Christmas Reflection Series – Day 2 Luke 1:26-37 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her […]
THE LIGHT THAT BRINGS GRACE OF HOPE AND JOY
Let us be the loud voice of the voiceless and make ourselves as living testament of their presence in a society that marginalized them.
FRENCH-GERMAN HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE FOR CRISTINA PALABAY
This well-deserved award to Tinay Palabay is also a great tribute to all of us in Karapatan and the marginalized and the victims of human rights violations we are serving. It simply says that all along and despite the attacks of the government through various agencies including the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the other critics, we are doing right for the cause of human rights.
Understanding the Philippine Election
The 2022 Philippine general election will take place on May 9, 2022, for executive and legislative branches of the government – national, provincial, and local, except for the barangay officials. The election is not like in other countries where people vote for political parties and the political parties are the ones that fill a person […]
It was and is not…
It is when you believe that it was all fine,But then you realize that it was and is not fine. It is when you feel that everything was already okay,But then you realize that everything was and is not okay. It is when you think that all will be going well,But then you realize that […]
DEFEND PH! A Black Saturday Protest
These injustices cannot go on. Today, 3rd of April 2021, being the Black Saturday of the Holy Week, the Europe Network for Justice and Peace in the Philippines takes the lead in calling for the formation of a Europe-wide and even a global alliance, to defend the Filipino people and to launch the Defend Philippines or DEFEND PH! Movement.
500 Years of Faith Seeking Liberation
Contrary to this missionary statement of God, the mission to the Philippines was that of colonialism and subjugation, of exploitation and oppression.
Magna Carta for Seafarers Philippines
MESSAGE TO THE LAUNCHING OF THE SEANETWORK AND ON-LINE FORUM ON HOUSE BILL 6588, November 28, 2020 1. On behalf of the OM, I would like to share first and foremost our church’s joy in giving as a chance to continually take part in activities such as this that bear strategic significance for the advancement […]
The Theology of Struggle. 