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On October 3, 2006, Bishop Alberto B. Ramento, a staunch peace and human rights advocate known as the “Bishop of the Poor Peasants and Workers” and former chair of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) was found murdered in his rectory. Over the past five years, 27 clergy and religious workers of the United Church of Christ Philippines, United Methodist Churchy, Philippine Independent Church and Roman Catholic Church, along with over 700 farmers, students, workers, community organizers, human rights workers and journalists, have been violently killed in the Philippines and their deaths remain unprosecuted. |
A Service and Candlelight Vigil for the Disappeared and Killed Religious and Community Leaders in the Philippines will be held Sunday, December 10th at 4:00 P.M. at the Daly City United Methodist Church, 1474 Southgate Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015.
You are invited to bring flowers or your own candles for a candlelight procession following the service. Clergy are requested to come in clerical garb.
In February, Rev. Julie Horne, Co-Chair of Shasta District Church & Society Committee , will join with 24 who will journey to the Philippines as a “presence” and witness to human rights violations. (More about that in next Shasta e-letter.) |
