BAYUGAN CITY, Agusan del Sur, March 4 – The religious leaders were united in an interfaith dialogue and discussed the role of the religious sector in the Whole of Nation Approach to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s Sectoral Unification and Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) Clusters held recently at the Kalinaw (Peace) Building, 3rd Special Forces “Arrowhead” Battalion in Barangay Noli, this city.
Lieutenant Col. Sahisa T. Adzramen (Chaplain Service), 4th Infantry “Diamond” Division post-Islamic Chaplain; 3rd Special Forces “Arrowhead” Battalion (3SFBn) Commanding Officer Lieutenant Col. Joey Baybayan INF (GSC) PA with religious leaders from the Catholic, Islam, United Church of Christ of the Philippines (UCCP), Seventh-day Adventist Church and Iglesia Independiente Filipina (IFI) attended the event.
First Lieutenant Krisjuper Andreo J. Punsalan, 3SFBn Civil-Military Operations Officer, oriented the participants in the Whole-Of-Nation Approach to End Local Communist Armed Conflict as a peaceful concept to end any armed conflict by focusing on peace and development interventions in conflict-affected areas to address root causes of conflict and in advocating the E-CLIP to induce peaceful surrenders.
Punsalan also encouraged the participation of the religious sector in Deradicalization program for former rebels through values formation, and strengthening of spiritual dimensions to denounce violence in resolving conflict, the promotion of Family and reconciliation, and the conduct of intensified information drives among youth ministries and their respective members to protect the religious and other faith-based organizations from communist and other terrorist groups’ infiltration which can destroy their credibility and corrupt their faith.
Lieutenant Col. Sahisa T. Adzramen (Chaplain Service), 4th Infantry “Diamond” Division post-Islamic Chaplain; 3rd Special Forces “Arrowhead” Battalion (3SFBn) Commanding Officer Lieutenant Col. Joey Baybayan INF (GSC) PA with religious leaders from the Catholic, Islam, United Church of Christ of the Philippines (UCCP), Seventh-day Adventist Church and Iglesia Independiente Filipina (IFI) attended the event.
First Lieutenant Krisjuper Andreo J. Punsalan, 3SFBn Civil-Military Operations Officer, oriented the participants in the Whole-Of-Nation Approach to End Local Communist Armed Conflict as a peaceful concept to end any armed conflict by focusing on peace and development interventions in conflict-affected areas to address root causes of conflict and in advocating the E-CLIP to induce peaceful surrenders.
Punsalan also encouraged the participation of the religious sector in Deradicalization program for former rebels through values formation, and strengthening of spiritual dimensions to denounce violence in resolving conflict, the promotion of Family and reconciliation, and the conduct of intensified information drives among youth ministries and their respective members to protect the religious and other faith-based organizations from communist and other terrorist groups’ infiltration which can destroy their credibility and corrupt their faith.
LTC Adzramen further emphasized that a true religious leader who believes in God leads his followers to the path of peace and the goodness of life.
“Ang tunay na alagad ng Panginoon ay hindi kumakanlong ng kasamaan at kaguluhan. Kung ang tao ay naging masama, tungkulin nating akayin sila pabalik sa kabutihan at ibalik sa tamang landas para hindi na ulit sila maligaw (The real follower of Christ are those who do not engage in wrong doings to cause conflicts. If an individual has become the person he/she shouldn’t be, it is then our responsibility to help them be at the right path and never let them do the same mistake again),” the chaplain said.
LTC Baybayan called on the participants to promote reconciliation to end conflict and prevent the unnecessary loss of lives. “We greatly hope that you could help us promote peace and reconciliation to induce more peaceful surrenders. The country has already suffered enough and as the President said, we cannot afford to pass this communist armed conflict to the next generations,“ he said.
Meanwhile, the Sectoral Unification, Capacity Building and Empowerment Cluster of Executive Order No. 70 shall engage, unify, capacitate, empower and mobilize all sectors (including the religious sector) of society to be free and resistant to Communist Terrorist Groups’ (CTG) mass base building operations and infiltration activities, to reinforce good governance, enduring peace and sustainable development. (KAP/3SFBn/PIA-Agusan del Sur)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1035673
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