Strengthening Filipino Migrants’ Faith through Popular Religiosity

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norlan Julia
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Popular Piety ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Filipino Migrants ◽  
Popular Religiosity ◽  
The Many

The introduction of popular religious practices traditionally held during major liturgical feasts in the Philippines has gathered Filipino migrants in Norwich, United Kingdom, into a dynamic ecclesial community. It has sustained their faith even as they struggle to face the many challenges of living and working abroad and keeping the faith without the comforts and certainties provided by a predominantly Catholic culture at home. They draw courage and consolation from participating in the year-round activities in their Filipino chaplaincies. The author’s pastoral voluntary work in the United Kingdom has been an experience of building an ecclesial community of Filipinos in diaspora, of providing means of support amidst crisis, and of accompanying them in their journey towards a better life and a more meaningful relationship with God. The paper proceeds in three steps. First, it enumerates the challenges faced by Filipino migrants in the practice of their Catholic faith. Second, it illustrates how these challenges were met through the introduction of religious traditions commonly practiced in the Philippines. Third, it offers some theological insights on the power of popular piety to nourish the faith of Filipino migrants and to form them to become dynamic agents of evangelization. References are made to some points raised by Pope Francis on popular piety in his recent apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. 在菲律宾主要的礼拜仪式的宴餐节日期间，传统上盛行的宗教操练会集了在挪威和英国的菲律宾移民，他们成为了生机勃勃的教会团体。即使他们面对在国外生活和工作的种种挑战，以及在没有国内那种天主教文化的舒适和把握的情况下，依然保持信仰的挑战，这种教会团体帮助维持了他们的信仰。他们在参与菲律宾的宗教年度活动中找到了勇气和安慰。本文作者在英国的志愿牧养工作就是在移民中建立菲律宾教会群体，在危机中提供支援，并伴随他们的旅途，走向更好的生活及与上帝建立更有意义的关系。 本文有三步。第一，列举菲律宾移民在操练天主教信仰上面对的挑战； 第二，说明这些挑战是怎样透过介绍菲律宾普遍操练的宗教传统而得到解决的；第三，提供一些神学见解，这些见解就是关于普遍虔诚的能力可以来培养菲律宾移民的信仰，以及栽培他们成为福音使者。也会参考教皇弗朗西斯一世最近的使徒劝勉 Evangelii Gaudium 中提及的关于普遍虔诚的某些观点。 El introducir prácticas religiosas populares tradicionalmente realizadas durante las principales fiestas litúrgicas en las Filipinas ha posibilitado la formación de una comunidad eclesiástica dinámica entre los migrantes filipinos de Norwich en el Reino Unido, Ha fortalecido su fe, aún en medio de los numerosos desafíos que enfrentan al vivir y trabajar en el extranjero; y les ha ayudado a mantener su fe sin las comodidades y seguridades proporcionadas por una cultura predominantemente católica en su país de origen. Se fortalecen y reciben consuelo al participar de las actividades realizadas durante todo el año en sus capillas filipinas. El trabajo pastoral voluntario del autor en el Reino Unido ha sido el de construir una comunidad eclesial de filipinos en la diáspora, de dar apoyo en medio de crisis, y de acompañarles en su caminar hacia una vida mejor y a tener una relación más profunda con Dios. Este artículo se divide en tres secciones. En primer lugar, se enumeran los desafíos que los migrantes Filipinos han enfrentado en la práctica de su fe católica. En segundo lugar, se explica cómo se enfrentaron estos desafíos al introducir prácticas religiosas comúnmente practicadas en las Filipinas. En tercer lugar, ofrece algunas reflexiones teológicas sobre el poder de la piedad popular para nutrir la fe de los migrantes filipinos y para formarlos como agentes dinámicos de evangelización. Se hace referencia a algunas cuestiones planteadas por Francisco sobre la piedad popular en su reciente exhortación apostólica Evangelii Gaudium. This article is in English.

scholarly journals The Environmental Activism of a Filipino Catholic Faith Community: Re-Imagining Ecological Care for the Flourishing of All

Religions ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Jeane C. Peracullo ◽  
Rosa Bella M. Quindoza
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Catholic Organizations ◽  
Prophetic Mission ◽  
The Many ◽  
Climate Crisis

Extensive open-pit mining activities in the Philippines since the 1970s up to the present confront the meaning of the “Church of the Poor”, a description that the Catholic Church in the Philippines uses to visualize its prophetic mission. Alongside mining, many more environmentally destructive industries are present in the poorest areas in the country, even though the Philippines is disaster-prone and one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the devastating effects of the climate crisis. The environmental degradation has prompted many Filipino Catholic organizations and communities to act together through various campaigns to address the problem. The article examines a case of a faith-based community that rose to the challenge to address various environmental issues their community was and continues to experience. The community’s environmental activism presents a viable model for a re-imagined ecological care towards the “flourishing of all” as a response to Pamela McCarroll’s call to action to continue conversations on the many ways practical theology can move beyond anthropocentrism while focusing on social justice.

scholarly journals A unique measles B3 cluster in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands linked to air travel and transit at a large international airport, February to April 2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Nic Lochlainn ◽  
Sema Mandal ◽  
Rita de Sousa ◽  
Karthik Paranthaman ◽  
Rob van Binnendijk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Virus Strain ◽  
Measles Virus ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
The Uk ◽  
In Transit

This report describes a joint measles outbreak investigation between public health officials in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands following detection of a measles cluster with a unique measles virus strain. From 1 February to 30 April 2014, 33 measles cases with a unique measles virus strain of genotype B3 were detected in the UK and the Netherlands, of which nine secondary cases were epidemiologically linked to an infectious measles case travelling from the Philippines. Through a combination of epidemiological investigation and sequence analysis, we found that measles transmission occurred in flight, airport and household settings. The secondary measles cases included airport workers, passengers in transit at the same airport or travelling on the same flight as the infectious case and also household contacts. This investigation highlighted the particular importance of measles genotyping in identifying transmission networks and the need to improve vaccination, public health follow-up and management of travellers and airport staff exposed to measles.

Open-Source Personality Trait Norms for the United Kingdom and Ireland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conal Twomey ◽  
John A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Personality Measurement ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Many ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract. Most copyrighted personality inventories facilitate norm-referencing through illustrative tables, yet their application to the many fields relevant to personality measurement is constrained by the need for stakeholders to possess the requisite financial resources to access them. Using an IPIP-NEO-300 dataset from Johnson’s IPIP-NEO data repository, we created open-source norm tables for different age groups (14–17 years; 18–25 years; and 30+ years) within a combined standardization sample from the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland ( N = 18,591). The newly created tables are freely available online ( https://osf.io/tbmh5 ), and there is no need to ask for permission to modify them. We provide general instructions that can be used to create open-source personality trait norms for other countries, settings, and age groups, as well as gender-specific norms. There is great potential for these norms to be used in various settings and their open-source freedoms may encourage future collaborations and investigations.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 859-863
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Tenth meeting: The tenth meeting of the Council of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was held in London on May 3–5, 1965, under the chairmanship of Michael Stewart, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom. Other member governments were represented by Paul Hasluck, Minister for External Affairs of Australia; D. J. Eyre, Minister of Defense of New Zealand; Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan; Librado D. Cayco, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines; Thanat Khoman, Minister of Foreign Aflairs of Thailand; and George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State of the United States. Achille Clarac, French Ambassador in Bangkok and Council representative for France, also attended the London session as an observer. (On April 20 the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs had announced that France would not send a delegation to the meeting although Ambassador Clarac would be present as an observer only.)

The polemics of Singlish

English Today ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee-Wong Song Mei
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Linguistic Ideology ◽  
Outer Circle ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Inner Circle ◽  
And Function

An examination of the culture, identity and function of English in Singapore.The widespread use of English in Singapore has placed Singapore in the Outer Circle, along with India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, the Philippines and others, in contrast with Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and others who belong to the Inner Circle (Kachru,1991). Placing countries in different circles – inner vs outer or expanding, based on the concept of nativization – has generated questions of democracy in linguistic ideology and related issues of norms and standards. These are discussed.

Anzus Pacific Security Pact

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-400
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Government ◽  
Foreign Ministers ◽  
Relationship Of

The ANZUS Council held its second meeting in Washington, D.C., on September 9 and 10, 1953. While the first meeting of the Council had been devoted largely to organizational matters, the second meeting provided an opportunity for the foreign ministers of Australia, New Zealand and the United States to review the developments of the past year and to discuss common problems in the Pacific area. Prior to the opening of the meeting, there had been speculation in the press about the possibility of providing some form of associate membership in ANZUS for other countries — particularly the United Kingdom – and other international organizations. The United Kingdom was reportedly dissatisfied with its exclusion from the organization; Prime Minister Churchill had been quoted as telling the House of Commons on June 17 that he “did not like the Anzus Pact at all” and that he hoped that “perhaps larger and wider arrangements could be made which would be more satisfactory than those now in force”. According to the communique issued at the close of the meeting, however, the ministers “unanimously concluded … that to attempt to enlarge its membership would not contribute directly and materially” to the strengthening and defense of the ANZUS area. The communique pointed out that ANZUS was one of a number of arrangements for the furtherance of the security of the nations of the area; specifically the communique mentioned the mutual security pacts between the United States and the Philippines and Japan, United States defense understandings with the government of China on Formosa and the relationship of Australia and New Zealand with the other Commonwealth nations. Together, the communique noted, these arrangements ‘constitute … a solemn warning to any potential aggressor and represent the growing foundation for lasting peace in the Pacific”.

Dimming the Seas around Borneo: Contesting Island Sovereignty and Lighthouse Administration amidst the End of Empire, 1946–1948

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-207
Author(s):  
David R. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sulu Sea ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
North Borneo ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Mind Set

AbstractThis article examines issues of island sovereignty and lighthouse administration in maritime Southeast Asia in the context of post-war decolonisation. It does so by demonstrating how lax and complacent colonial governance in British North Borneo led to the construction of a lighthouse on contested island territory. By the late 1940s these islands became the focal point of a regional dispute between the Philippines, North Borneo's colonial government, and the United Kingdom. While lighthouses were, in the colonial mind-set, deemed essential for illuminating the coasts and projecting order onto the seas, the Philippine government sought to renege on colonial-era obligations and wrest a new sense of post-colonial legitimacy.The legacy of the Turtle Island transfer was therefore significant in recalibrating imperial lighting in the Sulu Sea, as well as giving rise to a Philippine post-colonial authority that was characterised by an acknowledgement of indigenous Suluk maritime heritage. Similarly, it reflected an extension of previous instances of transnational disputes in the region, where the island shoal had been simultaneously claimed and administered by the United States, the United Kingdom and the historical Sulu Sultanate. While the lighthouse remained destroyed, and the seas dimmed, by mid-1948 the Turtle Islands had attained a new post-colonial and transnational status. Utilising a range of archival sources, memoirs and published material, this article sheds light on an under-examined period of Southeast Asian history.

Exceptional Italy? The Many Ends of the Italian Colonial Empire

2018 ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
Nicola Labanca
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Both the history of Italian colonialismand its end have often been seen as exceptional. Depending on the opinions of different historians, the Italian colonial empire was either built too late or remained too small to be compared to the large overseas possessions of other European imperial powers, such as Portugal, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. Focusing on the particularities of an Italian Empire built in East Africa and in Libya, this chapter surveys the motivating factors of, the geopolitical obstacles to, and popular cultural engagement with colonial expansion in Italy before, during, and after the country’s turn to fascism.

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