JCM: See how Philippines and other countries celebrate its Independence Day!

Friday, June 12, 2015

See how Philippines and other countries celebrate its Independence Day!

CAMBODIA

Students discharge festive balloons near Phnom Penh's Independent Monument, which was erected in honor of Cambodia's 1953 deliverance from French rule. The monument is a central assembly every 9^th of November in the course of Independence Day festivities, which peeks at the country's historical distressed past towards its more promising future.

BRAZIL

In one of the most non-violent Latin American revolutions, Brazil won its autonomy after Portuguese prince Don Pedro I declared it independent of his father's rule on 7 September 1822. Today, independence commemorations are as much an opportunity for opposition brought by corruption in the country.

BOLIVIA

Venezuelan statesman Simon Bolivar announced Bolivia's independence from Spain in 1809, but it took 16 years before it was established as a republic. Starting on 6 August each year, Bolivia gives a two-day festivity with marches, parades and carnivals.

BELARUS

Instead of celebrating their 1991 deliverance from 70 years of Soviet rule, Belarusians commemorates the liberation of their capital, Minsk, from Nazi occupation on 3 July 1944.

BANGLADESH

Nine months of resentful fighting with Pakistan secured Bangladesh's independence in 1971, though not before three million lives were lost. On Victory Day, commemorated every 16 December, Dhaka's streets are inundated with parades and political rallies.

AFGHANISTAN

Afghan’s Independence Day is celebrated on 19 August. Afghanistan's recent afflictions have endangered its sovereignty, which was established when the British signed the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919.

In some parts of the world, independence is still a country’s yearning which others can’t fully enjoy because of different social ills: from corruption to territorial trespassing, from market manipulation to labor malpractice, etc.

Let each country of the world be reminded that freedom should be rooted in reason and will, that shapes one's own life (which mirrors a country’s resilience in trade and commerce, in and in the borders of family and community), growth and maturity in truth and goodness, attaining its perfection when directed towards God, our supreme blessedness. (Catechism of the Catholic Church)

Peter 2:16-17 Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God. Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king.

Thought to discern:

Taken from the behavioral pattern in terms of trade and commerce and bilateral/multilateral relationships, how does your country behave from the autonomy it triumphs? Could you cite any particular choice that you gauge as something that fortifies/compromises the common good? How?