South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes claimed that some priests and nuns are helping train recruits of the New People’s Army (NPA). Philstar.com/File photo
KORONADAL CITY, Philippines -- South Cotabato’s prelate on Wednesday assured there are no priests and nuns involved in the activities of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the province.
Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez of the Diocese of Marbel, which covers Koronadal City and surrounding towns in South Cotabato, also denied insinuations by Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes that certain missionaries have been extending support to NPAs operating in far-flung areas.
Fuentes is the presiding chair of the South Cotabato provincial peace and order council.
The Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation, which has two radio stations in Koronadal City, had quoted Gutierrez as saying Wednesday that priests and nuns are merely working for the poor and needy sectors and are not involved in any uprising against the government.
Fuentes had earlier insinuated that there are nuns and priests helping train NPA recruits.
Gutierrez said Catholic missionaries are only helping fight for the rights of oppressed and marginalized communities in interior areas in South Cotabato.
The bishop said there is no truth to the assertions of the governor.
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The good Bishop needs to take a hard look at those priests and nuns who have "opted for the poor" and embrace the concepts surrounding Liberation Theology. There are a number of these folks from the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) and the Sisters Association of Mindanao (SAMIN) that have cooperated closely with known Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) front organizations in Mindanao to the point of even serving as officers and spokespersons for these communist groups. And there is an ostensibly religious organization. the Promotion of Church People's Response (PCPR) that is a member organization of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-New Patriotic Alliance), the main CPP-associated umbrella multisectoral front group.
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