MESSAGE TO FILIPINO AMERICANS ON THE 123RD PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY
MESSAGE TO ALL FILIPINO AMERICANS ON THE 123 RD PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY The Rev. Canon Dr. Winfred B. Vergara, Missioner for Asiamerica Ministries in the Episcopal Church, Delivered at the Filipino American celebration in Queens, New York. To all my fellow Kababayans here in the United States, in the Philippines and all around the world. Happy 123 rd Philippine Independence Day. Here in Queens, New York we are celebrating this event with an Open Air Mass and Group Picnic here at Flushing Meadows Park. Thank you, Rev. Henry "Bong" Janiola and Gary Labao for organizing this event. Maybe this is a foretaste of more celebratory events, the grandest one being a celebration of the end of COVID pandemic. I think it is significant that this celebration is jointly sponsored by the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and the Federation of Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) and Migrante. It is significant because in history, the struggle for Philippine Independence was founded on