We, the 134 priests and consecrated persons of the Diocese of Malaybalay, firmly express the fruits of our collective discernment during our 53rd annual
rdWe, the 134 priests and consecrated persons of the Diocese of Malaybalay, firmly express the fruits of our collective discernment during our 53 annual assembly on November 18-20, 2024 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center, Impalambong, City of Malaybalay.
In 1986, the Kianteg Development Corporation , a company managed and co-owned by Mr. Pablo Lorenzo III, leased from Department of Environment and Natural Resources about 958 hectares of MPK’s ancestral land . This lease agreement expired on December 31, 2018.
Since the ancestral domain of the MPK is classified as alienable and disposable land, DENR ordered, as early as 1999, that upon the expiration of the said lease agreement in 2018, its “Office will no longer facilitate the renewal.” Thus, on February 1, 2019, DENR sent a Letter to KDC, through Pablo Lorenzo III, informing the corporation that the previously leased areas are now under the exclusive jurisdiction of the NCIP.
We were very indignant to know that the MPK members failed in their plan to repossess the ancestral domain on October 21, 2024 because “the PNP coercively stopped them.” As one of the bishops who joined the support group boldly testified: “The PNP also coercively stopped us at the checkpoint and blocked the road leading to the IP community without any valid reason.
As members of the Church who have particular vows to follow Jesus Christ closely, we reflectively ask ourselves: what is it that we should be doing when we say “our main concern with tribal peoples is to bring them the Gospel of Christ”? In the light of our preferential option for the poor, we re-affirm the social teaching of our former Bishop, Francisco Claver, SJ, that it is essentially part of the Church’s mission “to defend the rights of the indigenous people, guarding them against...
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