MARAMAG, Bukidnon (MindaNews/03 December) – Gonzalo Pinuti held his hammer tight as he detached the barbed wire from a fence of a former cattle ranch amid the blistering heat of the sun. With help from a fellow farmer, it took him about five minutes to detach the barbed wires and put down three wooden posts and let his colleagues enter the ranch with carpentry tools, round timber and tents for their temporary shelter.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/1 Dec) – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will probe anew the extrajudicial killings in the city that linked possible involvement of local officials and the police to further verify the agency’s report during its first investigation
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/27 Nov) – Members of the Mamanwa tribe in Agusan del Norte and some parts of Surigao del Norte appealed to the city government to implement the law mandating local government units to provide a seat for Lumad
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/11 November) — The embattled junior police officers who claimed they were mauled inside a camp by their own senior non-commissioned officers said they will file administrative charges against “all police commissioned officers who were responsible
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.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 Sept) – The Philippine Army’s 7th Infantry Battalion has denied allegations by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that soldiers tortured a suspected bomber arrested in Pikit, North Cotabato last week. “We assure the public that subject suspect
Early in the morning of Thursday, September 1, residents near the regional office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) along the corner of Tiano and Del Pilar Streets in Cagayan de Oro City were caught by surprise upon
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/25 August)— The Department of Labor and Employment in Region 12 (DOLE-12) is trying to break the vicious cycle of rampant child labor in the mining industry, especially in small-scale operations, a top official said. Ma. Gloria A.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 August) – The city government has intensified its campaign for the immediate diagnosis and treatment of suspected dengue cases in a bid to address the rising number of dengue deaths in the city this year that
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 July) — Most of the children who became victims of trafficking in Northern Mindanao or Region 10 came from Bukidnon, Ma. Salome Ujano, national coordinator of the Philippines Against Child Trafficking said Monday. Ujano was here for
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 July) – Leptorpirosis is the new problem flooded communities may to face after the water had subsided, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said. Ona told MindaNews the flooded areas especially those with high rat populations are prone to
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — Some 5.2 million families in the country have not enrolled with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), Department of Health Secretary Enrique Ona said here Tuesday. Ona said this is the reason for
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 June) – Dengue cases in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao have dropped by at least 78 percent in the last five months but regional health authorities are not slowing down anytime soon with their intensified campaign
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 June) — The Bukidnon Provincial Health Office is spearheading the formation of a Bukidnon multi-sectoral alliance for the control of tuberculosis in the province. Dr. Teresita G. Damasco, provincial health officer, said they are holding consultations in
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 June) — The municipal health officer of Pangantucan has asked the Sangguniang Panglalawigan (provincial board) to look into the provincial hospital in Maramag’s alleged refusal to admit a woman expected to give birth to a triplet –
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 May) – Schistosomiasis is endemic in 53 of Bukidnon’s 464 barangays with five of these villages having an infection rate of at least 10 percent, according to a report released by the Department of Health Bukidnon Schistosomiasis
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — It’s planting season but these farmers are in the picketlines, not in the ricefields. [] Farmers belonging to the Buffalo Tamaraw Limus (BTL) Association staged a week-long rally against Central Mindanao University in Musuan, Maramag,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 May) – As the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-XI entered its second day, regional director Yusoph Mama was a no show in the scheduled dialogue that would have discussed what the farmers claim are illegal exemption of large real estates in Davao Oriental from coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – The Department of Health can control schistosomiasis in Bukidnon with the help of the community using a mix of ways with emphasis on mass treatment, Dr. Ricardo Reyes, DOH provincial health team leader said. He
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/22 May) – The City Health Office here has recorded seven new cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immunodeficiency Acquired Syndrome (HIV-AIDS), from January this year, bringing to 35 the number of cases recorded since 1995, Dr. Rodel Agbulos,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 May) — If voting on the controversial Reproductive Health Bill were done now, it will muster at least 123 votes in the 285-member House of Representatives, Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan of the Gabriela party-list, said. As
TAGAYTAY CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – The negative public attitude towards persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) such as discrimination and stigmatization, is a major challenge facing health workers in curbing the deadly disease in the country, experts said. Dr.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 May) — Despite the nature of their work commercial sex workers in General Santos City have so far been free of the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus- acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS), according to Dr. Mely Lastimoso
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 May) — The Bukidnon Provincial Board has passed a resolution requesting the World Health Organization (WHO) to intervene and provide financial assistance for the rehabilitation of the Matin-ao Spring Resort in Bangcud, Malaybalay City to “contain and
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – The Lumad communities have express alarm over the consecutive killing of three tribal leaders in Monkayo, Compostela Valley these past few years. The latest killing was of Bae Floreta Caya from the Mandaya tribe last
