Tag: ancestral lands
Philippine bishops urge stronger safeguards for Indigenous Peoples amid critical minerals...
Church leaders called for genuine consent, stronger environmental safeguards and Indigenous participation in decisions affecting ancestral lands and livelihoods
Philippine Church raises alarm over weakened FPIC protections for Indigenous communities
“The Church recognizes indigenous peoples not simply as recipients of pastoral assistance but as partners in the mission of the Church and custodians of creation"
Philippine Indigenous leaders sign Bontoc Declaration to defend nature, ancestral lands
Indigenous leaders unite in Bontoc to defend nature’s rights and ancestral lands through dialogue, tradition, and action
Philippine diocese demands government action on ancestral land rights
“As members of the Church, we reaffirm our mission ‘to defend the rights of the Indigenous people, guarding them against violators’”
SPOTLIGHT: “They burned our home and killed our brothers”
Shifting donor priorities leave Catholic Church struggling to support Indigenous people's desperate defense of their ancestral land in Bangladesh
Special Report | Push for renewables threatens lands and livelihood in...
Indigenous peoples not only suffer from the impacts of climate change but are also victims of just transition initiatives
Enrichment of the rich, dispossession of the poor?
Local government units in Mindanao must conduct inspection/verification/investigation on whether these chemicals are cancer-causing or not
Philippine Protestant churches boost campaign to defend tribal territories
The Protestant church group said it is a “Christian duty” and “the mission of the Church” to protect “the remaining lungs of the earth”
Philippine tribal group starts global campaign to protect ancestral lands
The Cordillera People’s Alliance seeks broad support to protect ancestral lands in the Cordillera region from “environmental plunder"
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