Wednesday, January 21, 2015

MILF: MILF thanks Pope Francis for “blessing” GPH-MILF Peace Process

Posted to the MILF Website (Jan 19): MILF thanks Pope Francis for “blessing” GPH-MILF Peace Process

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in a statement posted as editorial of Luwaran.com dated January 18 thanked Pope Francis for ‘blessing’ the peace process between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Front. 
   
“There is nothing we can ask for from the highest personality of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, except to thank him for “blessing” the Bangsamoro peace process between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)’, it said.

Thank you Pope! We know how much value and influence your simple words work with people who follow and listen to you. Ordinary mortals can shout and shout to the world but only few people would listen to them, but that of a leader of 1.2 billion Catholics all over the globe including those in this country is unimaginable. The moral suasion penetrates the heart and soul of every Filipino Catholics; we are sure, including those in the highest echelon of government and the lawmakers, the MILF also said.

"I note with pleasure ‎that last March an agreement was signed to end long years of tension in the Philippines," Pope Francis said.

The Pope in his first public statement delivered before President Benigno Aquino III, other government officials and members of the diplomatic corps  at Malacañan Palace made specific reference to the Comprehensive on the Bangsamoro (CAB).

In Rome, before living for Sri Lanka, he also told members of the diplomatic corps about the on-going peace process between the GPH and MILF.

The Pope's "words of encouragement and blessing” follow the recent statement of the surviving framers of the 1987 Constitution expressing full support to the Bangsamoro Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) including its constitutionality. They said that the vision, spirit and the core principles behind the provisions on autonomous regions constitute the essential constitutionality of the proposed BBL”, the MILF continued saying.

Both statements came at a critical time as Congress enters the final, difficult stages of deliberation of the proposed BBL, the MILF said.

Clearly, there has been no better time in the past and in the near future that the chance of resolving the Bangsamoro Question presents itself than today.

 Except for few naysayers or doomsayers, the entire nation and the international community, fourteen of the 18 surviving framers of the 1987 Constitution, and now Pope Francis by blessing the peace process urge us to solve this question now, the MILF said in its statement.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1456-milf-thanks-pope-francis-for-“blessing”-gph-milf-peace-process

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