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EcuVoice – The Ecumenical Voice for Human Rights and Peace.
Website: https://ecuvoicephils.wordpress.com/
Country: The Philippines
Global partner since: 2000
The Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (Ecumenical Voice) is a network of faith-based and human rights organizations that are working together to promote peace and people’s rights for the defense of life, land, and God’s creation. EcuVoice has been a partner of KAIROS since the early 2000s. KAIROS has supported EcuVoice to bring the true picture of the human rights situation in the Philippines – including the situation of women, Indigenous people and other victims of rights violations – to various government bodies, including the Canadian Parliament, the US Congress and inter-governmental bodies like the UN Human Rights Council since 2007.
National Council of Churches of the Philippines
Website: https://nccphilippines.org/
Country: The Philippines
Global partner since: 2000
Founded in 1963, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) is an ecumenical fellowship of Protestant denominations in the Philippines working for unity in faith and order. This implies providing the churches with opportunities for common prophetic witness and service in responding to the people’s issues, specifically justice and peace, human dignity and rights, and the integrity of creation. It finds its theological basis in incarnation – in God’s solidarity with us, especially with those who suffer and the vulnerable – for the affirmation of just and inclusive communities. It also compels the church to bring about Christian hope into the realm of the possible in a society weighed down by systemic violence and degradation.
The ministry of the NCCP is organized into three distinct programs—Ecumenical Education and Nurture, Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations, and Faith, Witness and Service—which seek to express the NCCP’s mission of promoting fellowship, being a channel of united witness, and being a vibrant and credible institution for Christian solidarity towards the genuine transformation of church and society.