Pagsambang Bayan: People's Worship
Service and Candlelight Vigil for the Disappeared and Killed Religious and Community Leaders in the Philippines
Sunday, December 10, 4:00 pm
Daly City United Methodist Church
1474 Southgate Avenue
Daly City, CA 94015
October 3, 2006, Bishop Alberto B. Ramento, a staunch peace and human rights advocate known as the "Bishop of the Poor Peasants and Workers" and former chair of National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) was found murdered in his rectory. Over the past five years, 27 clergy and religious workers of the United Church of Christ Philippines, United Methodist Church, Philippine Independent Church, and Roman Catholic Church, along with over 700 other farmers, students, workers, community organizers, human rights workers and journalists, have been violently killed in the Philippines and their deaths remain unprosecuted. Please join us as we remember and honor those who have died or disappeared, and renew our call for peace, justice, and human rights in the Philippines.
We invite you to bring flowers, candles and banners for a candlelight procession following the service.
Clergy are requested to wear clerical attire.
Co-sponsored by:
PANA Institute (Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion), Daly City United Methodist Church, Filipino American Ministries of the California-Nevada United Methodist Church, Pacific Asian American Ministries of the Northern-California United Church of Christ; Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), Filipino Community Center (FCC-San Francisco), Liwanag Cultural Center in Daly City; and Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
(FACES).