DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 Nov) – The military and the police are either clueless about the existence of the Bagani armed group in Arakan, North Cotabato, or just turning a blind eye on the group’s existence, according to members
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 27 Sept) – Fr. Peter Geremia, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) and parish priest of Columbio in Sultan Kudarat, has assumed the parish in Arakan, North Cotabato left behind by slain priest Fausto
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) — The unexpected death of Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo has left a void not only in the campaign for good governance but also in the fight for justice for slain Italian priest Fausto “Pops” Tentorio.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 February) – Authorities filed this week murder complaints against Jimmy Ato, who was arrested almost two months ago in Arakan town in North Cotabato, and three others, after they were tagged as behind the killing in October
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from Northern Mindanao (Region 10) have returned the warrant of arrest to the Regional Trial Court branch 13 in Cotabato City where the case of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) – Kidapawan Bishop Romulo dela Cruz is “not prepared to dismiss and make light of the results of the work of the NBI-PNP-Department of Justice Team” in Thursdays’ arrest of a suspect in the October 17
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/31 December) — Fearing for his life and his family’s, the brother of the primary suspect in the killing of Italian missionary in North Cotabato, sought the help of Rep. Nancy Catamco and is now under her protective
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/29 Dec) – Posing as mining prospectors, National Bureau of Investigation agents went to a hinterland village in Arakan, North Cotabato and arrested this morning the alleged gunman of Italian missionary priest Fausto Tentorio. A brief
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 October) – When the 39-year Italian missionary Fr. Tullio Favali was gunned down by a paramilitary group on April 11, 1985, the 33-year old Fr. Fausto Tentorio “could have changed course, packed up his bags and head
ARAKAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/24 October) – Three of their colleagues have been killed since 1985 and two others have been kidnapped since 1998 in Mindanao, but the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) missionaries said they will continue their pastoral
ARAKAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/24 October) – In the last five years, slain Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio had been consistently writing emails to his family back in Leco, Italy every week. His elder brother Felici, who arrived in this town on Saturday, told Mindanews that he usually wrote emails to Fr. Tentorio on Fridays or Saturdays. And the priest would usually reply on Mondays. But when Felici checked his emails on October 17, Monday, he was wondering why there was none from his brother.
KIDAPAWAN CATHEDRAL. Kidapawan Bishop Romulo dela Cruz officiates the “rite of welcome for the deceased priest to the church” at the Our Lady of the Mediatrix Cathedral in Kidapawan City Monday noon. A procession will accompany Fr. Fausto Tentorio to
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 October) – As it was for slain Italian missionary Tullio Favali 26 years ago, thousands of parishioners, sympathizers and protesters will walk the four-kilometer stretch from the Our Lady of the Mediatrix Cathedral to the Queen of
ARAKAN, North Cotabato – Some 500 farmers, Lumads (indigenous peoples), students and churchworkers marched five kilometers from the Our Mother of Perpetual Parish in the poblacion to the Notre Dame of Doroluman Sunday, to bring the remains of Italian missionary
ARAKAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/22 October) — October 17 as I was travelling from Columbio to Kidapawan a close friend called “Fr. Pops was shot!” I thought he was still alive but soon a nurse from the hospital texted” Fr.Pops is
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/21 October) — Government prosecutors have entertained the possibility that state agents were behind the killing of Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio, in Arakan, North Cotabato. The Department of Justice is now looking into this angle with the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – Militant church leaders and organizations have pointed accusing fingers at the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the murder of Italian priest Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, PIME, who was killed by a lone gunman inside the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 October) — Results of the autopsy conducted on the slain Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio, showed two kinds of bullets were used to kill Fr. Fausto Tentorio, raising questions two guns may have been used, Fr. Peter
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 October) — He was about to enter his vehicle in the garage of his convent in Arakan, North Cotabato, to drive to the Bishops’s Residence in Balindog, Kidapawan City, 52 kilometers away for the monthly Presbyterium of
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 October) – His anti-mining advocacy and active defense of indigenous peoples’ rights could be the “possible, if not probable, cause” for the murder of Italian missionary, Fr. Fausto Tentorio, two groups today said. Tentorio, parish priest of
Underscoring the culture of impunity sweeping the rural areas of Mindanao, Fr. Faustino “Father Pops” Tenorio, an Italian PIME priest, was gunned down this morning in his convent. Fr. Pops has been an active advocate for the rights of the
ARAKAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/17 October) – Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio aka Tatay Pops, had pointed to a particular mahogany tree among the hundreds he had planted at the back of the convent in the 1980s, as the one that
ARAKAN, North Cotabato – Silence filled the Our Mother of Perpetual Help parish as hundreds of people gathered and waited for Fr. Fausto Tentorio’s body to arrive from the nearby funeral parlor. Everyone looked shocked while some wept on the
An Italian priest who has been serving Mindanao for decades and who was head of the Tribal Filipinos Apostolate of the Diocese of Kidapawan was gunned down at around 8:30 Monday morningjust as he was preparing to leave his convent in Arakan Valley, North Cotabato, for the 9 a.m. Presbyterium in Kidapawan City.
