This study explores the importance of Indigenous beliefs and practices in the Cordillera, Philippines, highlighting the necessity of maintaining cultural and spiritual ties to the land for environmental stewardship and sustainability. The research underscores the deep connection that Cordilleran communities have with their ancestral lands, regarded as sacred and vital for cultural identity and environmental management. For instance, the muyong forest management system and water resource management rituals directly demonstrate this connection. These practices provide specific environmental benefits, including biodiversity conservation, soil fertility, and water regulation. However, these practices are increasingly threatened by modernization, industrial activities, and the decline of traditional values. The study also investigates syncretism, where Indigenous beliefs merge with Christianity, resulting in unique perspectives on environmental ethics. The methodology involves critically reviewing available written traditions, including ethnographic studies, government reports, and Indigenous oral histories from the internet and libraries around Baguio City. The data were analyzed through thematic content analysis to identify patterns and insights. Results indicate that syncretism offers a valuable framework for combining traditional and modern conservation approaches. This framework highlights integrating Indigenous spiritual practices with contemporary ecological strategies, fostering a holistic approach to conservation.

Religions are a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices about transcendence. They are formed by complex social and cultural rituals and customs. Given that religion is also vital to the Indigenous Peoples, this study employed the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) to measure and understand the nuances of the religiosity of the Indigenous youth of Cordillera, also known as Igorots, in the Philippines. The Cordilleran youth’s religiosity is particularly interesting to the researchers because their autochthonous religion is marked by a cosmology that includes hundreds of deities and elaborate rituals accompanying personal and social events. Data collected from 151 university students showed that Cordilleran youth are highly religious, and those living in rural areas are more religious than the younger participants. The Cordilleran youth strongly prefer private practice and scored high in the ideology dimension of CRS. They tend to devote themselves to transcendence in their personal space through individualized activities and rituals. This study also found that the religiosity of the select Cordilleran youth was ambivalent, defined as the coexistence of different ideas or feelings in the mind or a single context. It shows the inter-religiosity of the Indigenous youth as expressed in the engagement of religious practices. This paper discussed these significant results and explored their implications for the Indigenous Peoples and the Cordilleran youth.

This article reinterprets the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37) through a triadic approach integrating postcolonial exegesis, Filipino cultural hermeneutics, and digital theology. It revisits the question “Who is my neighbor?” within the context of cyberspace, employing the Filipino concepts of kapwa and pakikipagkapwa-tao as ethical foundations for solidarity that transcends geographical and social boundaries. Through postcolonial analysis, the study exposes the power dynamics embedded in traditional interpretations and demonstrates how digital theology enables new expressions of compassion in online spaces. The findings reveal that digital platforms can function as modern “roads to Jericho,” where inclusion, exclusion, and advocacy unfold. By integrating theological and cultural insights, the study asserts that neighborliness is not merely a moral gesture but a theological vocation to embody mercy and justice within digital networks. It concludes that kapwa offers a humanistic and contextually grounded framework for digital ethics, calling the Church and society to cultivate genuine fraternity in cyberspace as an extension of Christian compassion and mission.