Thirty years ago, on May 20, 1992, Fr. Salvatore Carzedda, PIME, an active member of Silsilah, was killed in Zamboanga City. He was a close friend of Fr. Sebastiano D’Ambra, PIME, who founded the Silsilah Dialogue Movement in Zamboanga City in 1984. A movement identified as Abu Sayyaf also started to operate in Zamboanga at […]
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Following the tradition of Silsilah to send a message to the Christians on the occasion of Advent and Christmas and to the Muslims on the month of Ramadan we focus this year the message for the Christians recalling the voice in the desert of John the Baptist crying in the desert the message of prophet Isaiah: “… prepare
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On the occasion of the National Peace Consciousness Month promoted by the government thru the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Peace Process (OPAPP) for this month of September with the theme: “Healing as One Nation Recovering as a Better Generation”, we invite all to join this important event in the midst of so many
The Silsilah Dialogue Movement, reflecting on the present situation of COVID19 with all the implications, started to share to some groups closer to the Movement the new initiative WE SERVE. We first started to share this initiative with Emmaus Dialogue Movement, a Catholic group part of Silsilah, the Jama’a Dialogue Movement, an emerging Movement of
Following a long tradition of Silsilah to send a message to the Christians during Advent and Christmas time and to the Muslims on the occasion of the month of Ramadan, we address now this message to the Muslim Umma to renew the “chain” (Silsilah) of friendship , love and solidarity especially in this time when
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This year, we decided to have our 35th Silsilah Summer Course on Muslim-Christian Dialogue online. It is a new challenge we did also last year due to the situation. The 35th Silsilah Summer Course on Muslim-Christian Dialogue, invites participants to reflect on the past and recent history of the Philippines giving more attention to the
I am happy to present the new book “Stories of Change” published by Silsilah Publications. As an Italian priest arriving in Mindanao in 1977, I was surprised to listen to sad stories of conflict in Mindanao normally called “encounter”. In my language “Encounter” always has a positive meaning. I learned to accept the reality that
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The Catholic Church in the Philippines follows with great attention the visit of Pope Francis in Iraq in this special time of the 500 years of Christianity in the country. The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)- Episcopal Commission for Interreligious Dialogue takes this occasion to encourage all in the different parts of the
The Voice Entering the New Year 2021, we see that this year will be full of surprises. There are those who believe that COVID19 will be controlled with the vaccines and those who already see new signs of fear with new forms of virus and especially a more alarming signs of climate change and political
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In the spirit of Christmas and the New Year, we in Silsilah wish to express solidarity with all especially those who suffer most in this critical time of COVID19. Many things we can share to express solidarity, but we decided to share Solidarity with message of inspiration guided by the new book of Pope Francis,
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The Silsilah Dialogue Movement will launch the new partnership program, “We Serve” on December 30, this year. It isa new dream that Silsilah presents inviting partners to join us to “Dream Together” . After some steps of reflection and sharing, we identified partners and launched this new program, “We Serve”, at the end of this