New history aims to aid peace efforts

CATHOLIC educators meeting in Davao City, southern Philippines, announced yesterday they aim to correct historical biases and inaccuracies about Mindanao and its inhabitants, especially the Muslims and indigenous people, in elementary and high school textbooks.

Members of the Catholic Education Association of the Philippines (CEAP), meeting for a three-day national convention that began yesterday, agreed to rewrite history textbooks that religious leaders say “shore up biases against the Muslim and indigenous culture.”

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