From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 7): Peace advocates in Mindanao applaud GPH-MILF framework agreement

Peace advocates from the Church, academe and youth sectors in Mindanao commended the members of the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for succeeding in forging a draft framework peace agreement that will determine the roadmap for a permanent peace accord in Mindanao. Fr. Angel Calvo, a Claretian priest and well-known Mindanao peace advocate based in Basilan Province, said Mindanao residents who have been following the peace negotiations between the government and MILF panels, were harboring “high expectations that finally a peace accord can be reached and presented to the people” Calvo is the lead convenor of the Mindanao Peaceweavers, a civil society organization that monitors the ceasefire agreement between government and MILF forces in Mindanao....

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