World Council of Churches - Feature
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AMID RAGING VIOLENCE, PHILIPPINE CHURCHES BUILD PEACE
By Maurice Malanes
Face to face with violence and death, Philippine churches help building peace in their Southeast Asian nation where an armed conflict continues to rage, especially in the countryside. Fuelling an intensified militarization , the fight often takes a heavy toll on innocent civilians, including women and children.
Many church workers paid with their lives for their outspoken support of widowed mothers and orphaned children, victims of the government's counter-insurgency war. Their names are among the over 800 victims of extrajudicial killings registered since 2001 by the independent human rights watchdog Karapatan.
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