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Thursday, December 1, 2005
A CHURCH-BASED SOCIAL ACTIVIST GUNNED DOWN IN THE PHILIPPINES
By Santosh Digal
Special to ASSIST News Service
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (ANS) -- A coordinator of a Church-based human rights organization in the Ilocos and Cordillera region, northern Philippines, was shot dead by a lone gunman on a November 28 night.
Jose Pepe Managdeg III, 37, coordinator of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), had just spoken at a seminar sponsored by the Ilocos Human Rights Advocacies and was waiting for a bus at about 10 p.m. (local time), when a man stopped in front of him, police said. A man alighted from a vehicle and shot Managdeg with a 45-caliber pistol.
Fearing for his life, a cyclist, an eye witness, sped off, returned to the resort, where the seminar was held, and informed Manegdeg's companions about the incident, according to the police.
Together with the police, they rushed to the scene and found his bag, cell phone and other belongings missing.
He was going to pick up his wife, Florence, who would be arriving from Hong Kong, police said. His body bore 22-gunshot wounds.
Beverly Longid, vice-chairman of Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA), a regional affiliate of the Alliance for the Advocacy of Human Rights, called the attack "a clear manifestation of brutality."
Sister Genovera Dumay, coordinator of the RMP, in the Ilocos said Manegdeg had received death threats through several SMS (mobile phone text messages) after his predecessor Romeo Sunchez was killed in March this year.
"He (Manegdeg) would tell me that he would receive threats informing him that he would be next after (Sanchez). We believe that this is work-related attack," Sister Dumay said, "The RMP condemns the killing of Manegdeg. We ask for justice and we call on the government to stop [the] killing against progressive church workers, she added."
Dumay and Longid said Manegdeg was tasked with helping tobacco farmers and had taken part in campaigns against the contamination of the Abra River and military operation in the Ilocos region.
RMP was organized in 1969 of various orders of Roman Catholic Church across the country to uplift the condition of Philippines peasants and push for land reforms. It was expanded in the 1980s to include priests and at one time espoused liberation theology.
Pastor William Mairano, coordinator of the Regional Ecumenical Council in the Cordillera, said Managedeg was a former record coordinator who worked with Benguet farmers, and an editorial staffer of its publication, Writing on the wall.
Santosh Digal is a freelance journalist, based in Manila. He holds Batchelor's Degree in English and Master's degree in Sociology.
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
ASSIST CORRESPONDENT JEREMY REYNALDS' NEW BOOK CHRONICLES HIS FIGHT AGAINST ON-LINE TERRORISM
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Contact Jeremy Reynalds at (505) 400-7145 or (505) 877-6967.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (ANS) -- Long- time Albuquerque resident and Assist News Service Correspondent Jeremy Reynalds is best known for his work with Joy Junction (www.joyjunction.org), the shelter for homeless families he founded in 1986 and continues to direct. However, there’s another side of Reynalds that is not quite as well known – as a terrorist hunter.
For the last three years, Reynalds has investigating a number of Islamic terrorist web sites, many of which are hosted by American Internet Service Providers.
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Reynalds said, “Some people wonder what the director of a homeless shelter is doing trying to apprehend radical Islamic terrorists. That's an easy question to answer. Above anything else, Joy Junction is a faith based ministry which shows the love of Jesus Christ in spiritual and practical ways to the many homeless women and families who come to us looking for help. Unless we start taking the fundamentalist Islamic agenda seriously and realizing that its ultimate goal is to impose shariah (Islamic) law over the entire world, we'll be in trouble. We won't be able to have faith based ministries like Joy Junction – they'll be illegal. People need to understand what's going on here.”
Reynalds’ work has been profiled on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper Show” and Fox News “The O Reilly Factor.”
Reynalds’ new book, chronicling his exploits fighting the online jihad, and titled “War on the Web,” will be released in April 2006 by World Ahead Publishing. However, copies may be pre-ordered by going to Amazon.
Reynalds said, “Tracking terrorism on line began as a hobby for me. Now it has become a passion. I am excited that people will finally be able to see how proficient terrorists have become at using the Internet for their evil purposes. I pray that many people will buy this book and that the Lord will use it to awaken people before it’s too late.”
Reynalds said that pre-ordering a book can be very important to its success, and he hopes that people will do so by going to Amazon.
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. He has five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jgreynalds@aol.com. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A black and white JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
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