Fr. Rex Reyes is the first indigenous person to become secretary-general of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. This message was read at the Toronto Celebration of Cordillera Day on April 24, 2010 at Ryerson University.* * *
CORDILLERA DAY 2010
Cordillera Day has a face — the face of Macliing Dulag. In his time Macliing Dulag personified the resistance of the lgorots to the Philippines systematic destruction of the forests and rivers of the Cordilleras in name of profit and development and without regard to the welfare of the Igorots and the ecological consequences of such destruction.
Cordillera Day has a face — the face of Macliing Dulag. In his time Macliing Dulag personified the resistance of the lgorots to the Philippines systematic destruction of the forests and rivers of the Cordilleras in name of profit and development and without regard to the welfare of the Igorots and the ecological consequences of such destruction.
