Pedro Walpole SJ, APC Executive Director It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Datu Nestor Lumista Menaling, tribal chief of the Pulangiyēn community in Bendum on 11 January 2026. He was 81 and for the last…
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Pedro Walpole SJ, APC Executive Director Looking back on the past 11 months, our journey together is not always easy yet filled with moments that remind us why our work in APC matters: the laughter of children learning with joy,…
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Eneriza Menaling from the Pulangiyēn community in Bendum, Malaybalay in Bukidnon, Philippines shared the message of the Asia Oceania indigenous youth to COP30 during an official COP30 side event, seeking climate justice at the same time offering their guardianship of…
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In this short video, Untung ta Kalasan (Forest of Life), Eneriza Menaling, shares her story and that of the forests and her community in Bendum. Eneriza is a Pulangiyēn youth from Bendum, an upland village in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, in northern…
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Julie Edwards The Core Group of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) Social Apostolate met over four days in Bendum, the Philippines on the ancestral lands of the Pulangiyēn people, where the relationship of the culture with the landscape…
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