Posts Under Fr. Fausto Tentorio Category
AFP, PNP either clueless on Bagani armed group, or turning blind eye, solons say
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… »
Fr. Geremia assumes Tentorio’s parish in Arakan
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… »
Robredo’s death a big blow to fight for justice for Fr. Pops Tentorio
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… »
Fr. Pops’ Murder Suspect
NBI agents take off the handcuffs from Jimmy Ato, alleged gunman in the killing of Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio, at the NBI regional office in Cagayan de Oro City… »
They all came for Father Fausto Tentorio
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – Father Fausto Tentorio disliked ceremonies, especially those that drew attention to himself, and if he were alive, Kidapawan Bishop Romulo dela Cruz said as he… »
Final Touches
FINAL TOUCHES. Workers prepare the plot where Fr. Fausto Tentorio’s remains will be buried Tuesday near another Italian PIME martyr, Tullio Favali who was gunned down on April 11, 1985.… »
PIME unfazed; will continue to work in Mindanao
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… »
The email that did not come: Brother recalls times shared with slain priest
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.
Rite of welcome
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… »
Funeral march for Tentorio: as it was in 1985 for Favali
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 … »
Tentorio’s remains moved to Notre Dame in Doroluman
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… »
COMMENTARY: Fr. Pops and his people’s dreams
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… »
Underscoring the culture of impunity sweeping the rural areas of Mindanao
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… »
Everyone knew “Tatay Pops” — from grandparents to grandchildren
ARAKAN, North Cotabato – “I learned a lot from his experience here in his pastoral work Everyone knew him here — from grandparents to grandchildren,” Fr. Giovani Vettorello, assistant parish… »
A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: A friendship with Pops across 34 years
CEBU CITY (MindaNews/18 October) — The first text came just before 10 a.m. on the 17th of October, 2011 with these words – Fr. fausto tentorio, italian priest basd in… »
Slain priest’s mahogany tree: “Use this for my coffin”
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… »
Gunman shot priest at close range, made sure he was dead
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… »
COMMENTARY: Martyr for Justice and Peace
BANGKOK (MindaNews/17 October) — I have no hesitation to call Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME, as a martyr for justice and peace. He is a worthy member of that noble line… »
