The Walk for Creation was participated by some parishioners from Barra-Igpit parish led by their parish priests, the junior seminarians of the Archdiocese, Columban Missionaries, staff of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro, and student volunteers from the University of Science and Technology of The Philippines (USTP).
The Higaonon community of Sitio Canaan, Dansolihon warmly welcomed the visit of Fr. Kang Seungwon, a member of the General Council, and Miss Vida Amor Hequilan, a member of the Columban Lay Missionaries Central Leadership Team.
"I came to realize about how much outrage Popong has against greed when Father Yrap shared that Popong ‘did not want to give a penny’ to anyone who might profit from kidnapping him."
The first groups of Columbans who came to the Philippines were pastorally-oriented men with a lot of zeal for spreading the faith. Their zeal and commitment were shown in the sacrifices that they made during the Second World War, when they decided not to desert their parishioners.
“God always forgives. We humans sometimes forgive. The earth never forgives. There can be no future if we destroy the very environment that sustains us” (Pope Francis, Our Mother Earth, p36).