Some 6,000 tribal people from all over the Philippines marched to the capital Manila on Oct. 13 to highlight their call for "self-determination and a just peace." Organizers of the event said tribal ...

Church groups in the Philippines marked this year's "Indigenous Peoples Sunday" on Oct. 14 with symbolic rituals signifying their commitment to "accompany" or support tribal people in the country. At ...

The Philippine government should urgently act ... “Paramilitaries in Mindanao have been terrorizing tribal people while the military at best does nothing,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia ...

In the early 1990s, their leaders initiated a tribal war against a logging ... Which is why the Ata Manobo people, like other minorities in the Philippines, often take it on themselves when ...

Catholic bishops across the Philippines have joined tribal leaders and advocacy groups to denounce the arrest of ten ...

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — To his fellow tribal members, Datu Julito Ahao is ... Natural Park on the island of Mindanao, home to his people, the Obu Manuvu, and the Philippines’ highest peak.

Payac and a few other teachers discovered the body of the tribal school executive ... the killings of indigenous people before the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Philippine army’s Colonel ...

adding that tribal people should come up with "proper designated officials and representatives" to negotiate with mining companies. The faith-based civil society network Philippine Misereor ...

Since time immemorial, the Aeta tribal people have been living in the hinterlands ... the Americans set up bases and reservations in the Philippines. One document was a report by the General ...

MADAUM, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation ... imposed after Islamist militants took over the city of Marawi. At least 60 tribal people have been killed since 2016 when Duterte came ...

Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Death of Father Fausto Tentorio during the month dedicated to the tribal people, will give courage to many within the Church and Philippine society, to be more ...

Nearly 500 years on, tribal tattooing is almost ... feature among pre-Hispanic tribes of the Philippines. They acted as a corporal roadmap designating people by tribe and rank, acting as a ...