Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform

A press conference will be held 10am on September 20 at the CBCP compound to open "Peace Week". A trainors training and workshop on the peace module will be held after at 1:30pm at the UCCP Shalom Center in Malate, Manila.

A fellowship dinner will be hosted by the PEPP on September 19, 2010 at the Barrio Fiesta restaurant in U.N. Avenue, Ermita, Manila. From 5-7PM there will be panel updates and dialogues. The fellowship dinner will commence after. Invited to the fellowship is the Honorable Ambassador of Norway (RNG), members of the GRP and NDFP peace panels and representatives, and various church leaders.

The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform held a workshop abou the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) at the Mornese Center of Spirituality of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Laguna last November 16 to 18, 2009.

Various churches in Central Luzon attended the PEPP Regional Workshop on Peace focusing on the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER), held on October 21-23, 2009 at the Social Action Center of Pampanga (SACOP), at San Fernando, Pampanga. ... More

(Mark S. Ventura, CBCP News) DAVAO CITY, Sept. 13, 2009–The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP), a network of church aggrupations that promote the peace process as a way of addressing issues of conflict, reforms and social justice will hold a forum on peace talks on September 19. ... More

(Evelyn Macairan, Philippine Star) MANILA, Philippines – The country’s major religious groups yesterday said that they favor the resumption of peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) next month. ... More

The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP), a group composed of the country’s major religious bodies released a statement today welcoming the recent announcements made by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)  and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)  that the formal peace talks will resume next month, August 2009. ... More

The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform condemns in strongest terms the brutal murder of Rebelyn Pitao, 20-yr old daughter of Leoncio Pitao, aka “Ka Parago”, a known ranking leader of the New People's Army (NPA) in Mindanao. ... More

(Ma. Cecilia Rodriguez, Philippine Daily Inquirer) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Fresh from a solidarity mission for peace in Europe, where they met with leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF), religious leaders from all over the country gathered here Thursday and reiterated their call for the government and the NDF to begin formal peace negotiations. Earlier, the peace mission brought the Church leaders to Utrecht, the Netherlands, where they met CPP leaders Jose Maria Sison and Luis Jalandoni. They also proceeded to Oslo and met with Norwegian officials and their counterparts from the Norwegian Ecumenical Peace Platform. ... More

Church leaders of various churches and denominations all over the Philippines reiterated today their call for the resumption of formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), as well as between the GRP and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). ... More