By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A day before the first death anniversary of Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima told the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland that the missionary’s death “has not been...
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today KIDAPAWAN CITY -- About 600 farmers belonging to the Arakan Progressive Peasant Organization (APPO) and church people trooped to the municipal gym, January 20, to meet head on the commanding officer and spokesman of the 57th...
40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
(Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea)
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We have a democracy in name but not in fact.” – Manuel Diokno, president of the Free Legal Action Group
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week I was in Kidapawan City to attend the wake and funeral of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the now-famous martyred Italian missionary about whom I wrote last week. I stayed a day longer to visit another wake in...
Letter to the Editor 25 October 2011 Dear Editor, We, the Moros, share the grief of our Christian and Lumad brothers and sisters in Arakan, North Cotabato for the brutal killing of Father Fausto Tentorio, PIME, an Italian Catholic missionary who truly served the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Tentorio was “a good priest, a fervent believer who for many years served the people of the Philippines in a courageous and indefatigable way.” Pope Benedict XVI
BY CJ KUIZON Davao Today Main Story: Scholars to pursue legacy of Fr. Pops ARAKAN, NORTH COTABATO—“I thought he had a stroke.” Lucita Nombreda or Ate Cita was the first to discover the dead body of Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME. The 72-year-old...
By MARIETA BASTE-HERNANI and MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
“Father Pops told us, Jesus Christ sacrificed his life for the people. What about us humans? Can’t we sacrifice our lives for our fellowmen and women, too?”
Sidebar: Musings in the first hours following Fr. Pops murder?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Italian missionary Fausto Tentorio foresaw six years ago that he would “die of bullets” someday. Although he was proven correct, that didn’t make his death right. Last week, Fr. Tentorio was shot dead outside...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld President Benigno Aquino III has “vowed,” say media reports, to get the killers of Fr. Fausto Tentorio even if they should turn out to be members of the paramilitary groups he, Aquino, has refused to dismantle. The...
In 1985 when the Marcos dictatorship was at its most desperate at clinging to power, an anticommunist paramilitary group called Tadtad led by Norberto Manero killed the Italian priest Fr Tullio Favali, PIME, on April 15, 1985. It shattered a belief that in this...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The killing of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME, shocked the nation. While the impunity in extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations still prevails, nobody expected that it would victimize a Catholic...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It is very clear that the priest's murder was pre-meditated as there was already a threat on his life by the Bagani paramilitary group under the jurisdiction of the 73rd IB, eight years ago due to his love for the Lumads, particularly in organizing them to have their voice heard…” -- Rural Missionaries of the Philippines
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