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PCFI leads interfaith prayers @ OPAPP launch for Peace Month

On September 1, 2009 (Tuesday) The Peacemakers' Circle facilitated the multifaith prayers that started the program launching the Peace Consciousness Month 2009 organized by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), held at the Peace Bell area of the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City.

Among the faith representatives were Sanghabi (indigenous call to prayer), Fr. Jose Souza, SJ (Catholic prayer), Alan Berguia (Muslim prayer), Shakuntala Vaswani (Hindu prayer), Raymond Cosare (Tibetan Buddhist prayer), and Tomomi Shima (Shumei prayer).

OPAPP has been organizing this program every year on the first of September for the past 5 years since the signing of the Presidential Decree declaring September as the Peace consciousness month in the Philippines.
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