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==ARMM to showcase unity and culture in its 24th anniversary== | |||
*Source:http://www.mb.com.ph/armm-to-showcase-unity-and-culture-in-its-24th-anniversary/ | |||
*Sunday, November 24, 2013 | |||
:By Ayunan G. Gunting | |||
Unity and culture will take center stage in this year’s celebration of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao’s (ARMM) 24th founding anniversary. | |||
ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said various cultural shows will be conducted during the month-long celebration of the ARMM’s 24th founding anniversary to depict the unique cultural identities of the region’s Moro and non-Muslim indigenous groups. | |||
Hataman stressed the importance of these cultural shows during their festivities as they will highlight the peculiarities of the region’s local communities, which despite having different traditions and cultures, are bound by Islam as a common religion. | |||
“The region’s non-Muslim indigenous groups are also related to us. There is no separation, except for religious identities. We are one because we only have one community before the dawn of Islam in this part of the country. One people, one voice, one direction—unity, peace and prosperity,” Hataman said. | |||
The month-long celebration has already kicked off last November 7 with a parade of traditional attires made from hand-woven fabrics, Float and Cultural parade. The Lanao Del Sur float won with its concept of the Sultanate in a Torogan. | |||
The Sultan and his Radiamoda surrounded by their Bai a Labi and Moro Warriors, wearing authentic Maranao costumes. The Basilan float placed second. | |||
Gov. Hataman wore traditional Yakan clothes, and his deputy, Vice-Gov. Haroun Al-Rashid Lucman, Jr. led the employees of different regional departments in Thursday’s kickoff ceremony for the anniversary feast. | |||
Hataman hails from Sumisip town in Basilan, while Lucman is an ethnic Maranaw who belongs to the Lucman clan of Bayang, Lanao del Sur. | |||
The event served as an initial highlight of the celebration of the region’s 24th founding anniversary which will last until December 19, when local residents commemorate the Shariff Kabunsuan Day. | |||
The Kabunsuan Day is a non-working regional holiday observed yearly to honor Shariff Mohammad Kabunsuan, a Muslim missionary from Johore, now an island state in Malaysia, who arrived in the 14th century in what is now Cotabato City to preach Islam. | |||
The start of the celebration of the ARMM’s 24th founding anniversary, meanwhile, coincided with Thursday’s Sheik Karimul Makdum Day. | |||
The Makdum Day is also a yearly regional holiday being observed throughout the autonomous region in commemoration of the arrival 633 years ago in Simunul, now an island town in Tawi-Tawi, of Arab preacher Makdum from the Middle East. | |||
Makdum was the first ever Muslim cleric to set foot in Mindanao to spread Islam. | |||
==Relatives of Maguindanao massacre victims mark 4th year anniversary with 'cry for justice'== | ==Relatives of Maguindanao massacre victims mark 4th year anniversary with 'cry for justice'== | ||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=12&rid=589966 | *Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=12&rid=589966 | ||
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While everyone wanted justice done quickly, Coloma said the government is patiently waiting for justice to take its course. | While everyone wanted justice done quickly, Coloma said the government is patiently waiting for justice to take its course. | ||
Arrested and facing multiple murder charges were 104 persons, including what the government prosecutors believed were the masterminds, former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr, his namesake Andal Jr who was mayor of Datu Unsay municipality when he allegedly led the suspects, former ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan and nine other Ampatuans. | Arrested and facing multiple murder charges were 104 persons, including what the government prosecutors believed were the masterminds, former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr, his namesake Andal Jr who was mayor of Datu Unsay municipality when he allegedly led the suspects, former ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan and nine other Ampatuans. | ||
==WFP, ARMM works on Gulayan sa Paaralan program== | ==WFP, ARMM works on Gulayan sa Paaralan program== | ||