"Love of God and Love of Neighbor” is this year’s Mindanao Week of Peace theme

From MindaNews (Nov 4): "Love of God and Love of Neighbor” is this year’s Mindanao Week of Peace theme

This year’s theme for the Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP) on November 29 to December 5 is on love of God and love of neighbour. “ Love of God and Love of Neighbor, A Challenge for Mindanao,” is this year’s MWOP theme; last year’s was “Common Word between us and you: Love of God, Love of Neighbor.” In a three-paragraph joint statement, the Bishops-Ulama Conference said “the great majority of believers in Mindanao today are Christians, Muslims and Indigenous Peoples” who all believe and worship a Creator whom they call by different names – God, Allah, Magbabaya – and who express their beliefs and perform acts of worship “according to their respective cultures, traditions and environments....”  The MWOP is a take-off from the annual Zamboanga Week of Peace introduced by the Peace Advocates Zamboanga. Mindanao’s Bishops-Ulama Forum (now Conference) opted to make the celebration Mindanao-wide beginning 1999. Backed up by a Presidential directive, the MWOP begins every last Thursday of November. Taking off from the BUC’s theme, the theme for this year’s MWOP in Zamboanga City is “Together for Sustainable Peace in Mindanao....”

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