Posted on 08/17/2022 7:00:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
At least 16 individuals, including some nuns of the Rural Missionaries of Philippines, have been charged with the alleged crime of financing the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which has been leading an insurgency against the state for decades. The court could issue an arrest warrant. Rural missionaries actually defend the environment and the rights of local indigenous people.
Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The Philippine Department of Justice has charged at least 16 people, including several nuns linked to the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, with sending funds to the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (Cpp-Npa).
The charges were filed yesterday in Iligan City Regional Court by Department of Justice lawyer Mico Clavano based on an investigation by the Anti-Money Laundering Council. The alleged offense, not subject to bail, was registered under the Terrorist Financing Act, which penalizes anyone who makes available "property or funds, financial services or other related services" to individuals or groups designated as terrorists by the government.
The Rural Missionaries of Philippines (Rmp) were designated as such in December 2020 by the Anti-Terrorism Council, but already the previous year their bank accounts had been blocked by the Anti-Money Laundering Council because they were suspected of financing the communist insurgency. In June this year, their website was taken down by the government. An arrest warrant may be issued against the defendants in the coming days.
In reality, the Rural Missionaries are a group of lay and religious people from different congregations working in Mindanao-the southern island of the Philippine archipelago-in defense of the environment and indigenous people. They had just celebrated their 53rd anniversary in the country yesterday when charges were filed against them.
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You cannot be a Christian and support communist.
I had a wonderful tour of the Philippines decades ago, visited many islands, even Mindanao. Friends back in Manila couldn’t believe we went there, the place was so dangerous. Which explained why our tour guide looked like a professional boxer.
Veto!
(The Girl)
WTH is the date on this? The early 1900s?
BTW..often confused is the urban legend that Pershing used pig blood soaked bullets to execute them over there.
It would have fit Leonard Wood better and the massacre at Bug Dajo against the Moros. Who BTW have strong ties to a front who are Islamic.
This is in a generally “Christian” region of Mindanao - Lanao Del Norte. That province is about 2/3 “Christian”. The rural missionaries generally don’t do conversion work but a combination of religious services and poverty relief work. The Philippine Catholic Church does not have enough coverage in parish priests and the like for the populations over there.
The religious who go there are often accused of assisting the chronic communist rebellion. Northern Mindanao is the last major stronghold of the NPA as those places are relatively poor, in a poor country, and there are also chronic land disputes between tenant farmers and landlords.
We maybe should have kept that country as a protectorate.
Cuba also.
Mexico also.
“You cannot be a Christian and support communist.”
Well, when the boss (the Pope) is a commie, it’s easy to be a misguided Christian.
6. Good information. Any evidence of Red Chinese influence or aid?
You are very correct the Pope is a commie.
Jesuit trained “Liberation Theology” followers
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