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- As Muslim-majority ethnic groups, they form the largest non- Christian population in the Philippines, and according the 2020 census conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority, they comprise about 6.4% of the country's total population, or 6.9 million people.
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Feb 8, 2021 · Who are the Moro? The Philippines has a population of Muslims, comprised of 13 indigenous groups known as the Moro, or Bangsamoro. They comprise 5% of the total population, and they are the largest non-Catholic group in the entire country.
The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [6]
1 day ago · The Moro Islamic Liberation Front was the largest Muslim separatist armed group in the southern Philippines, homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation, until it signed a peace deal with the government in 2014 when it dropped its separatist goal and agreed to a better-funded Muslim autonomous region called Bangsamoro in the volatile south.
Dec 14, 2021 · This paper explains the existing conflict between the Moro people of Southern Mindanao and the Christian people of the Republic of the Philippines.
Jan 4, 2021 · Almost two years ago, in January 2019, a referendum led to the creation of a Muslim dominated self-administered region called Bangsamoro (Malay for “nation of the Moro”) on the island of Mindanao. Unfortunately, the post-conflict transition in the south of the Philippines is proving to be slow.
Jan 24, 2021 · The peace deal between the government of Philippines and the armed group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) built on the establishment of a new autonomous region, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), which was formally inaugurated in March 2019.
Jan 22, 2022 · The BARMM is not only a realization of the Bangsamoro people’s hopes and aspirations; but is also seen as a testament of the sincerity of the Duterte Administration to fulfill the commitments made by the national government under all signed peace agreements with the Moro fronts.
