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Posted: October 2, 2006 |
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Unity Statement for Peace and Life JUSTICE TO ALL VICTIMS OF STATE TERRORISM OF THE ARROYO REGIME! |
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September 21, 2006 Remember Yahweh what has befallen us. Look and see our disgrace, our home handed over to strangers, our inheritance to foreigners. Lamentations 5:1-2 In the midst of 753 unsolved political killings of church people , media persons, government employees, youth, women indigenous people, lawyers, human rights workers, activists, peasants and workers, WE GIVE THANKS… ---for their selfless offering of their precious lives, for martyrdom, for peace. For life is not measured by the length of our lives, but by the gift we made of our lives for others. For the cause for which they gave their lives, their deaths were not a triumph of darkness but mighty explosions of light, that guide the winding paths of our nation’s pilgrimage to freedom. Our fallen friends and companions in the struggle can never be forgotten. Their every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice has encouraged thousands to emulate their example. And as all of us come to terms with inescapable death, they have inspired us to courageously struggle toward abundant life for all. Our hearts are filled to the brim with gratitude for their shining examples. For Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. In the midst of more than a hundred missing, and more that a hundred civilians traumatized from frustrated political killings, and thousands more harassed, violated, and displaced by an insane war, WE CELEBRATE… --- Even as Yahweh long defined the nothingness of darkness when He confounded all peoples with the accuracy and inevitability of the sunrise. These are but rehearsals of people’s sacrament and stories of the struggle for life, of seed surfacing from the inhospitable rock, of a child birthing against the deepest womb, of the Son of Man rising from the dead. YES the darkest night is our very assurance that dawn is sure to come. In the midst of charges and counter charges against even bishops, businessmen, patriotic soldiers, imprisonment, persecution and betrayal of the people’s trust, tyranny and repression of basic freedoms and rights in the form of EO 464, PP1017, the death of democracy in the rejection of impeachment proceedings, and anti-terrorism law….against a backdrop massive corruption and poverty, WE REJOICE. --- For the oppressors are besieged in the chaos of their own making, as they are digging their own graves in the sinfulness and deceit. And even as they celebrate their own petty victories in the killings of the freedom loving civilians, we rejoice, for it is in the silencing of the just that their sublime cause is magnified a thousand times. And the love of the just is always stronger than death. In the midst of the stalled peace negotiations between the government panel and the National Democratic Front, the Operation BANTAY LAYA which chose instead to kill innocent civilians instead of confronting the very issues of injustice that breed insurgency, the US-led war on terror to promote a most horrifying globalist empire founded on the blood of the innocents, the final triumph of evil masqueraded as good, OUR SOULS WILL PROCLAIM THE GREATNESS OF THE LORD. --- for He will act with power through then people, and will scatter the proud with their plans. He will put down the mighty from their thrones and lift those who are downtrodden. Luke 1:46-52 In the midst of the outright sell-out of our nation’s patrimony through the Mining Act, betrayal of truth through Charter Change, the promise of more war to suppress the people’s longings, and use of various laws in furtherance of tyranny, and the situation of an unproclaimed Martial Law, WE RAGE EVEN AS WE FERVENTLY PRAY…
Bishop Desmond Tutu once said, Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Victory is ours through Him who loves us. We urge all freedom loving Filipinos to break silence into song and transform fear into a people’s movement for justice. Only then will today’s crisis be a tomorrow’s masterpiece created by our unity and solidarity. Let us all do this for LIFE---For PEACE! We forward the following calls: STOP THE KILLING OF ACTIVIST, POLITICAL DISSENTERS,
MODERN DAY PROPHETS! The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke Stop the Killings! Network Convenors: Bishop Carlito Cenzon, CICM, DD, Vicariate of Baguio
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