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Lacson, Joey D. Execution funding Gomburza
Lacson, Joey D. Execution funding Gomburza
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Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands
The Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands (Spanish: Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas, IEMELIF) is a MethodistChristian denomination. Founded on 28 February 1909 by Bishop Nicolás Zamora, it is recognised in the Philippines as the first indigenous Evangelical Protestant denomination.
History
[edit]Behind the founding of the IEMELIF were Filipino nationalist and subsequent independence movements that blossomed in the late 19th century. Filipinos wanted full autonomy in all spheres including religion, as three centuries of Spanish rule were marked by the Catholic Church's near-absolute control over the colony's temporal and spiritual affairs.
When the United States of America colonised the islands in 1898, they introduced Protestantism, which they propagated together with early Filipino evangelists. The Insular Government, in contrast to the Spanish employment of the Catholic Church (by then disestablished as the state church), had a policy of religious tolerance. Although the Americans upheld this principle of religious freedom, Filipinos wanted a truly autonomous church consistent with their yearnings for political freedom.
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Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter
A film on Filipinos subjected to religious persecution in the past has made its maiden presence in the UAE.
This is “Gomburza,” the most-awarded – at six of 11 – in the Metro Manila Film Festival 2023. Not only it is a deep dive into the Historia De Los Fillipinos – Narrative of the Filipinos – during the 300 years of Spanish colonisation for which Espana ruled with might using the armour of Roman Catholicism, it is, as well, the mirroring of man’s heart-borne ordeals for the sole purpose of self-perpetuation because of the magnetising effect of power, fame and fortune, fuelled by avarice.
Spanning 55 years (1841 to 1896) of that three-century fiefdom of present-day Philippines, the nearly two-hour photoplay made more melancholic with the sepia-effect of cinematography, “Gomburza” revolves around racism and the consequent justice and freedom.
It is about how the Spanish Government which at that time had recently lost its other colony Mexico, misused again its supremacy – to the point of even becoming the puppeteer behind the Roman Catholic religious orders against their secular counterparts, many of whom were also of Spanish lineage - the only difference was that they were born and raised in Las Islas Filipinas and closely interacted