A STATEMENT OF GRIEF A CALL FOR JUSTICE FACT-FINDING MISSION STATEMENT OF THE KILLING OF ITALIAN PRIEST FATHER FAUSTO ‘POPS’ TENTORIO October 20, 2011 “Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” PSALM 82:3-4 We, representatives and leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, faith-based institutions, advocacy groups, academe, health institutions, the youth sector, indigenous peoples, and peasants have...

Press Release September 12, 2011 “TO SUFFER THY CHILDREN IS THE WORST CRIME” - Bishop laments killing of child in own home Davao City ---  “Is there no more safe place for children to live? Even in the confines of their own homes, they are threatened, worse, killed! To suffer thy children is among the worst crimes anyone could...

The Exodus for Justice and Peace (EJP) welcomes the effort of the Commission on Human Rights to campaign against summary executions. However, EJP emphasizes that justice for the victims of summary executions and extrajudicial killings should be the utmost cry. EJP is an alliance of the church leaders and religious, lawyers, academe,...

Davao City – Bishops belonging to the clergy-led Exodus for Justice and Peace reiterates their appeal to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) hierarchy to release the three NPA hors de combat on humanitarian grounds saying the release of the three will aid in the pursuance of peace talks. The group was referring to Vanessa delos Reyes,...

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink. (Proverbs 25:21)” As civil libertarians, church people, and human rights advocates, we are imploring this basic faith imperative along with our appeal to humanize the raging armed conflict in the country. We have appealed to the New People’s Army in the...

Davao City - A bishop of the clergy-led peace group Exodus for Justice and Peace (EJP) expressed today his concern over the Army’s 10th Infantry Division for its malicious use of peace rhetoric over the Army’s continued military operations in the region. “We view with concern how the military uses the terms “peace and development” to describe...

DAVAO CITY – Peace group Exodus for Justice and Peace is calling for the respect of the  human rights of the three wounded New People’s Army (NPA) members who sought the intervention of local authorities. It also warned the 10th ID of the AFP from interfering with local civilian authorities in the medical treatment of the NPA hors...

DAVAO CITY – The call for the immediate release of 57th IB personnel CPL Delfin Sarocam and PFC Jayson Valenzuela from the hands of the New People's Army (NPA) is strongly supported by peace group, Exodus for Justice and Peace. According to Bishop Modesto Villasanta, convener of Exodus for Justice and Peace, “We are very glad that there...