
ENRIQUE BATANGAN
MA Religious Studies (cand.), Maryhill School of Theology
BA History Major/minor in English with units in Education,
Corregidor College
MA Religious Studies (cand.), Maryhill School of Theology
BA History Major/minor in English with units in Education,
Corregidor College
Enrique Batangan has been involved in a number of socio-pastoral and community organizing works since 1975. Aside from being a resource person “on call” of Education for Life Foundation (ELF) and Popular Education for People’s Empowerment (PEPE), he also engages in consultancy work with various NGOs, parishes and religious congregations. A teacher by profession, he is a part-time lecturer at Sojourn (inter-congregational forum for postulants), Exodus (inter-congregational forum for novices), Inter-Congregational Theological Center (ICTC) and St. Vincent School of Theology (SVST). He also coordinates the SVST Resource Center for Social Concerns. He worked as Documentation Assistant in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong during the early 1980s under the auspices of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA). In summer of 1985, he addressed the Annual General Meeting of the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in London and its partner groups in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In 1986, he joined an exposure trip to Nicaragua. Ten years after his exposure to the BECs of Nicaragua, in 1996, he took up a course on Conflict Analysis and Transformation at the Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In 1998, he attended the Spring Term course on International Studies at the International Peoples’ College (IPC) in Helsingor, Denmark. At present, in addition to his socio-pastoral works, he also facilitates workshops on Popular Education, Culture and Religion, Pastoral Management, BEC Building, Social Analysis and Conflict Mediation.
Publications
Faith and Social Justice: Basic Christian Communities in the Philippines (published by the Catholic Institute for International Relations [CIIR], UK)
Contributor to Basic Christian Communities: Catalysts for Liberation, Part II. (published by the Claretian Publications, Philippines)
Contributor to Kiwa-Kiwa: Handbook for Community Animators (published by the Education Forum and BCC-CO and printed by Claretian Publications, Philippines)
On Hope and Cynicism. (published by the Socio-Pastoral Institute, Philippines together with Fr. Ton Dannenberg’s “Crisis in Socialism”)
Contributor to Salin-Buhay, magazine of the Education for Life Foundation (ELF) from 1995 to 2000.
Faith and Social Justice: Basic Christian Communities in the Philippines (published by the Catholic Institute for International Relations [CIIR], UK)
Contributor to Basic Christian Communities: Catalysts for Liberation, Part II. (published by the Claretian Publications, Philippines)
Contributor to Kiwa-Kiwa: Handbook for Community Animators (published by the Education Forum and BCC-CO and printed by Claretian Publications, Philippines)
On Hope and Cynicism. (published by the Socio-Pastoral Institute, Philippines together with Fr. Ton Dannenberg’s “Crisis in Socialism”)
Contributor to Salin-Buhay, magazine of the Education for Life Foundation (ELF) from 1995 to 2000.