Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform

(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