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...
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...
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...
Suspects in Fr. Tentorio slay charged
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 February) – Authorities filed this week murder complaints against Jimmy Ato, who was arrested almost two months ago in Arakan town...
NBI agents return to court warrant for Tentorio’s killer minus his ‘person’
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from Northern Mindanao (Region 10) have returned the warrant...
Bishop says arrest of suspect in Fr. Tentorio’s killing “key step” towards justice
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) – Kidapawan Bishop Romulo dela Cruz is “not prepared to dismiss and make light of the results of the work...
Brother of suspect in Fr. Tentorio killing denies involvement; seeks politician’s help
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/31 December) -- Fearing for his life and his family’s, the brother of the primary suspect in the killing of Italian missionary...
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...
Alleged gunman of Italian missionary nabbed
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/29 Dec) – Posing as mining prospectors, National Bureau of Investigation agents went to a hinterland village in Arakan, North...
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...
Fr. Fausto Tentorio laid to rest
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Theatre group pays tribute to slain Italian priest
ARAKAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/23 October) -- The Davao-based Kaliwat Theatre Collective on Saturday paid tribute to Fr. Fausto Tentorio at the Our Mother of...
Fr. Tentorio: missionary murdered 6 days before World Mission Sunday
ARAKAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/22 October) -- When he joined the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Father Fausto Tentorio signed a declaration that in...
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!”...
State agents killed Fr. Tentorio?
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/21 October) -- Government prosecutors have entertained the possibility that state agents were behind the killing of Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio,...
AFP killed Fr. Pops, say church leaders
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – Militant church leaders and organizations have pointed accusing fingers at the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the murder...
Two kinds of bullets used in killing priest; killer was “highly-trained shooter”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 October) -- Results of the autopsy conducted on the slain Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio, showed two kinds of bullets were...
Fr. Tentorio’s funeral set on Oct. 25
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 October) -- He was about to enter his vehicle in the garage of his convent in Arakan, North Cotabato, to drive...
Groups say anti-mining stance “possible, if not probable cause” of priest’s slay
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Italian priest gunned down in North Cotabato
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.