Malabon Lungsod ng Malabon
—  City  —
Official seal of Malabon Seal
Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Malabon
Malabon Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Malabon
Coordinates: 14°39.75′N 120°57.4′E / 14.6625°N 120.9567°E / 14.6625; 120.9567
Country	Philippines
Region	National Capital Region
Districts	Lone District of Malabon City
Barangays	21
Cityhood	May 7, 2001
Government
• Mayor	Canuto Senen A. Oreta (Lakas-Kampi-CMD)
• Vice Mayor	Antolin A. Oreta III (Lakas-Kampi-CMD/Liberal)
• Sangguniang Panlungsod	Councilors 1st District Maricar Torres Ian Emmanuel Borja Jaime Dumalaog Payapa Ona Ma. Anna Lizza Yambao Edwin Gregorio Dimagiba 2nd District Diosdado Cunanan Eduardo Nolasco Edward dela Cruz (+) Fortunato Espiritu Edralin Yanga Rufino Bautista
Area
• Total	19.76 km2 (7.63 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	363,681
Website	www.malabon.gov.ph

The City of Malabon is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila in the Philippines. Located just north of Manila, the city has a population of 363,681 as of 2007. It is primarily a residential and industrial town and is one of the most densely populated cities in the metropolis. It has a total land area of 19.714 square kilometers.

Malabon is part of the sub-region of Metro Manila informally called CAMANAVA. CAMANAVA consists of Caloocan City, Malabon City, Navotas City, and Valenzuela City. Caloocan lies to the south and east, Navotas to the west, and Valenzuela to the north. Malabon also borders the town of Obando in the province of Bulacan to the northwest.

History[link]

Malabon, per legend, came from the words maraming labong which means "plenty of labong", the edible bamboo shoots. Originally called the town of Tambobong, Malabon was founded as a “Visita” of Tondo by the Augustinian friars on May 21, 1599 and remained under the administrative jurisdiction of the province of Tondo from 1627 to 1688.

The newspaper La Independencia was first printed in Malabon’s Asilo de Huertanos, where orphaned children due to a plague in 1882 were housed.^[1][2]

Malabon was officially made a municipality of the newly-created province of Rizal on June 11, 1901 by virtue of Philippine Commission Act No. 137.^[3] When Act No. 942 was promulgated, Malabon was merged with Navotas under a new government.^[4] On January 16, 1906, Act No. 1441 separated Malabon from Navotas into two distinct municipalities of the Rizal province. The first Mayor of Malabon was Don Agustin Salamante, a Spanish mestizo originally from Cavite.

For 70 years, Malabon was a municipality of Rizal, until November 7, 1975, by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, when Malabon became a part of Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital Region. Malabon became a city on April 21, 2001, under Republic Act No. 9019 when Malabon was 407 years old.

Politics and government[link]

Representative Lone District of Malabon^[5]

• Hon. Josephine "Jaye" Lacson-Noel (NPC) ^[6]

Chief Executive and Council

• Mayor: Canuto "Tito" S. Oreta (National Unity) ^[7]
• Vice Mayor: Antolin "Len-Len" A. Oreta III (Liberal) ^[8]

Councilors First District

• Atty. Maricar D. Torres
• Ian Emmanuel "Ian" E. Borja
• Jaime "Jimmy" V. Dumalaog
• Dr. Payapa Viola-Ona, M.D.
• Ma. Anna Lizza "Leslie" G. Yambao
• Edwin Gregorio "Edwin" L. Dimagiba

Second District Councilors

• Diosdado "Dado" A. Cunanan
• Eduardo "Eddie" T. Nolasco
• Fortunato "Tato" S. Espiritu
• Edralin "Len" D. Yanga
• Rufino "Rufing" F. Bautista
• Merlin "Tiger" P. Mañalac ^[9]

On April 21, 2008, Malabon City’s newly-constructed 11-storey city hall building along F. Sevilla Blvd. in Barangay San Agustin, was inaugurated by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Malabon’s 7th City anniversary. It was dubbed as a “potential business center of the city,” a one-stop shop for government transactions, due to its state-of-the-art facilities such as 3 high-speed elevators and the new city hall building and its offices' “digital system.”^[10][11]

Heritage houses[link]

Malabon houses several old homes of historical value: the Dionisio family home, Rivera house, Villongco house, Luna house, the Martinez house, Chikiamco house, the Rojas-Borja house, the Santos-Lapus house, the Luna house and Pantaleon Bautista house, SyJuco (formerly Gaza) house, and the Raymundo house considered to be the oldest located at Cayetano Arellano Street. Other old but well preserved heritage houses in Malabon include the Asilo de Huertano, the Paez House, and the Nepomuceno House.^[12]

Local Venice, industry and culture[link]

The city is tagged as the Local Venice, due to year long floods and gradual sinking. The City of Malabon is a place famous for its Pancit Malabon and its predominantly Atlantic ambience. It is also famous for other variety of foods, such as puto sulot, puto bubong, sapin-sapin, broas, bibingka and the camachile. The culinary delights are abundant in its specialty eateries such as the Nanay’s Pancit Malabon, Rosy’s Pancit Malabon, the Pescadores Restaurant, and the Balsa sa Niugan, a floating restaurant with 350 seats, And also you can find "Steakside" a famous fast food restaurant which serves East meets West cuisine with a local twist using only fresh local ingredients that you can find in Malabon City, located at Concepcion Malabon. It is also known for the Bulungan at Tanong Market, the "bulungan" system or whispered bidding in fish trading.^[13]

Other Malabon industries include sugar refinery, patis making, cigar making, fishing and Ilang-ilang trees flower extract production where the distilled perfume is exported. Its most famous festival is the "Pagoda-Caracol", a fluvial procession with street dancing to commemorate the Feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Concepcion every 8 December.

Barangays[link]

Malabon City is composed of 21 barangays. In 1956, Acacia was created a barrio from the sitio of San Marcelo, which was formerly part of barrio Tugatog.^[14]

Acacia Baritan Bayan-bayanan Catmon Concepcion Dampalit Flores Hulong Duhat Ibaba Longos Maysilo Muzon Niugan Panghulo Potrero San Agustin Santolan Tañong Tinajeros Tonsuya Tugatog Religion[link] Roman Catholicism- Malabon belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalookan. Almost 80% of the people here adhere to this religion. The seat of the Bishop of Kalookan in Malabon is in San Bartolome Parish, is one of the oldest Augustinian church in the Philippines dating back to 1700. Today there are seven Roman Catholic Parish in Malabon: San Bartolome, Immaculate Conception, Exaltation of the Cross, San Antonio de Padua, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary and Sts. Peter and John. Another parish church, Santa Clara of Assisi in Barangay Longos, is under planning stages. Iglesia Filipina Independiente-known as the Aglipayan Church; They have one parish belongs to the Diocese of Rizal and Pampanga: The Parish of La Purisima Concepcion, home to the renowned image of the Immaculate Conception that the folks called it "Impong Maria." Iglesia ni Cristo-Another notable religious group here is the Philippine Based (Church of Christ). They have four locals in Malabon. Lokal ng Panghulo, Lokal ng Tinajeros, Lokal ng Naval, and Lokal ng Malabon. Members Church of God International- A group led by Bro. Eli Soriano (Ang Dating Daan) they have a small community here (local ng Tugatog) Malabon International Baptist Church under Bishop Pio Tica, a very active church in tenejeros not only in spiritual upliftment of Malabon but also visible even in the political aspect of the city. Dr. Pio Tica leads Laging May Pag-asa Foundation (LAMPF) and in the creation of Malabon Ministers for Moral Values (MMMV). Jesus the Living Stone (under JLS Churches & Ministries & in partnership with LAMPF-MMMV) in barangay Panghulo led by Rev. Andy Alcoba, a versatile and talented minister instrumental of having Special Events bringing Filipino Celebrities/Artists in the city of Malabon (City of God). Education[link] The De La Salle Araneta University is the seventh campus of De La Salle Philippines. It was formerly known as the Gregorio Araneta University Foundation which was established in 1946 as the Araneta Institute of Agriculture in Bulacan, then transferred to Malabon the year after. In 1978 it was renamed as the Gregorio Araneta University Foundation. Integration of the university to the DLS System started since 1987 and in 2002 became an official member of the system. The university specializes in Veterinary Medicine and Agricultural Sciences. As an agricultural University - Salikneta Farm (formerly known as Saliksik-Araneta)located at the City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Its total land area is 64 hectares of farm land owned by Gregorio Araneta University Foundation (now known as De La Salle Araneta University). The wide farmland is used for forestry and agricultural operations for student training purposes. Aside from serving as a laboratory and research facility, an agricultural-forestryecology- tourism-integrated farm complete with recreational facilities such as horse back riding, carabao cart-pulling for passengers, fishing, camping, mini-zoo and conference area is envisioned in Salikneta. Jose F. Oreta Hall of Justice Courts, Br. 73 & Br. 74, (presided by now SC Justice Bienvenido L. Reyes from 1990-2001) RTC (Catmon) Malabon City Jail, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (Catmon) Office of the City Prosecutor (Catmon) Halls of Justice Building, Br. 55 & Br. 56, Metropolitan Trial Courts of Malabon City & Navotas (Golden Dale Subdivision, Tenejeros) Halls of Justice Building, RTC, Brs. 72, 73, 74, 169, 170 & Office of the Clerk of Court (Tenejeros) Court room, sala of Br. 73, RTC (presided by Hon. Carlos M. Flores) International relations[link] Twin towns / Sister cities[link] Akita City, Japan (1987) Quezon City, Philippines (1988) Valenzuela, Philippines (1990) Gwangju , South Korea (1999) Taipei, Taiwan (2005) References[link] ^ manilastandardtoday.com, Malabon City: A sight of progress ^ wikimapia.org, Malabon City Hall ^ "An Act Extending the Provisions of the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Rizal". LawPH.com. http://lawph.com/statutes/act137.html. Retrieved 2011-04-12.  ^ "An Act Reducing the Thirty-two Municipalities of the Province of Rizal to Fifteen". LawPH.com. http://lawph.com/statutes/act942.html. Retrieved 2011-04-12.  ^ [1] ^ [2] ^ [3] ^ [4] ^ [5] ^ PGMA to inaugurate new 11-storey Malabon City Hall building tomorrow ^ Inauguration of the new Malabon City Hall Building ^ Inquirer.net, Malabon’s old houses survive time and tide ^ paraisophilippines.com, Malabon - The Local Venice ^ "An Act to Convert the Sitio of San Marcelo, Municipality of Malabon, Province of Rizal, into a Barrio to Be Known As Barrio Acacia of the Same Municipality and Separating It from the Barrio of Tugatog of the Same Municipality". LawPH.com. http://lawph.com/statutes/ra1498.html. 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Humani generis unitas (Latin for On the Unity of the Human Race) was a planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI before his death on February 10, 1939, which condemned antisemitism, racism and the persecution of Jews. Because it was never promulgated, it is sometimes referred to as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical."

History[link]

In June 1938, Pius XI summoned American Jesuit John LaFarge, who began to prepare a draft of Humani Generis Unitas, which LaFarge and two other Jesuits—Gustav Gundlach and Gustave Desbuquois^[1]—worked on in Paris;^[2] the draft was approximately 100 pages long.^[3] Another Jesuit translated the draft encyclical into Latin, presenting it to Vladimir Ledochowski, then the General of the Society of Jesus^[4]—who had chosen Gundlach and Desbuquois for the project.^[1] The draft encyclical was delivered to the Vatican in September 1938.^[1]

Some secondary sources—as well as Cardinal Tisserant the Dean of the College of Cardinals^[5]—claim that Humani Generis Unitas was literally on Pius XI's desk when he died of a heart attack on February 10, 1939.^[3]

Pope Pius XII, who succeeded Pius XI, did not promulgate the encyclical in the exact form of the draft left by Pius XI. Critics of Pius XII—notably John Cornwell in his controversial work Hitler's Pope—have cited his failure to promulgate the encyclical as evidence of his alleged silence toward anti-Semitism and The Holocaust, though a revised form of the encyclical was actually issued by Pius XII in October 1939^[1][2][6] and analysis of the encyclical figures prominently in most comparisons of the policies of Pius XII and his predecessor.^[4]

Pope Benedict XVI decreed in June, 2006 that all documents from the reign of Pius XI in the Vatican Secret Archives should be opened,^[7] and on September 18, 2006 over 30,000 documents were made available to researchers.^[8]

Content[link]

The first 70 paragraphs, probably authored by Gundlach, are a critique of theological modernism, unorthodox re-interpretation of Sacred Scripture, nationalism, and racism; the remaining 108, likely authored by all three Jesuits, contextualized the first part of the encyclical with the social role of Catholic educational institutions and anti-Semitism.^[1]

Although the draft encyclical clearly condemned racism and anti-Semitism, the document is deeply grounded in anti-Judaism^[2]. The draft encyclical criticizes the majority of post-Messianic Jews for not acknowledging Jesus Christ as the true Jewish Messiah.^[9]

Racism[link]

The “encyclical” clearly condemns American racial segregation and Racism and Nazi German anti-Semitism ^[10] Racism is a denial of the unity of human society. ^[11], a denial of the human personality ^[12] and a denial of the true values of religion ^[13] There is no relation between race and religion ^[14] last not least because racism is destructive to any society ^[15] The text points out that racism is destructive not only for social relations within a society but also for international relations and relations between different races. ^[16]

Antisemitic accusations[link]

The encyclical condemns the persecution of Jews as well. “These persecutions have been censured by the Holy See on more than one occasion, but especially when they have worn the mantle of Christianity". ^[17] “This unjust and pitiless campaign against the Jews has at least this advantage”, according to the “encyclical”, because the true nature, the authentic basis of the social separation of the Jews from the rest of humanity … is religious in character. …Essentially, the so-called Jewish question … is a question of religion and, since the coming of Christ, a question of Christianity. ^[18] The encyclical blames the Jews of the time of Christ for having brought their own Messiah Jesus Christ to death: "The very act by which the Jewish people put to death their Savior and King was, in the strong language of Saint Paul, the salvation of the world". ^[19] The draft encyclical continues by accusing Jews of blind materialism.

• Blinded by a vision of material domination and gain, the Israelites lost what they themselves had sought. A few chosen souls, among whom were the disciples and followers of Our Lord, the early Jewish Christians, and, through the centuries, a few members of the Jewish people, were an exception to this general rule. By their acceptance of Christ's teaching and their incorporation into His Church, they shared in the inheritance of His glory, but they remained and still remain an exception. "What Israel was seeking after, that it has not obtained; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been blinded" (Romans 11:7). ^[20] The planned encyclical argues, that

• By a mysterious Providence of God, this unhappy people, destroyers of their own nation, whose misguided leaders had called down upon their own heads a Divine malediction, doomed, as it were, to perpetually wander over the face of the earth, were nonetheless never allowed to perish, but have been preserved through the ages into our own time. No natural reason appears to be forthcoming to explain this age-long persistence, this indestructible coherence of the Jewish people.^[21]

Reaction of Pope Pius XII[link]

Pope Pius XII, who according to the authors, was not aware of the text before the death of his predecessor, ^[22] chose not to publish this encyclical. However, his first encyclical Summi Pontificatus (October 12, 1939), published after the beginning of WWII, has the identical title On the Unity of Human Society and uses many of the arguments of the text, avoiding most of the negative characterisation of the Jewish people and rabbinic religion still contained in the text of the original encyclical, planned and written before the invasion of Poland and the start of the Second World War.^[23]

Summi Pontificatus sees Christianity being universalized and opposed to every form of racial hostility and against racial superiority. There are no real racial differences, because the human race forms a unity, because "one ancestor [God] made all nations to inhabit the whole earth".

• What a wonderful vision, which makes us contemplate the human race in the unity of its origin in God. . . in the unity of its nature, composed equally in all men of a material body and a spiritual soul; in the unity of its immediate end and its mission in the world; in the unity of its dwelling, the earth, whose benefits all men, by right of nature, may use to sustain and develop life; in the unity of its supernatural end: God himself, to whom all ought to tend; in the unity of the means for attaining this end;. . . in the unity of the redemption wrought by Christ for all.^[24]

This divine law of solidarity and charity assures that all men are truly brethren, without excluding the rich variety of persons, cultures and societies.^[25]

References[link]

• Georges Passelecq and Bernard Suchecky, L’Encyclique Cachee de Pie XI, Une occasion manqué de l’Eglise face a l’antisemitisme , Editions La Decouverte, Paris 1995, (engl)The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI (Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1997).
• Encyclical Summi Pontificatus on the Vatican website

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Humani Generis Unitas draft of a section as of 1938
• Pius XI and the mystery of the disapperead encyclical (YouTube video, original Italian, with English subtitles, duration 04:38)