Cops ‘mauled’ by fellow NCOs question order dropping them from rolls
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/11 November) — The embattled junior police officers who claimed they were mauled inside a camp by their own senior...
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...
Sarangani village water not safe for drinking due to coliform
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 Oct) – Health officials in Sarangani have warned residents in a diarrhea-stricken village in Maasim town against drinking from all...
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.
Army denies MILF claim of torture of suspected bomber
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 Sept) – The Philippine Army’s 7th Infantry Battalion has denied allegations by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that soldiers tortured a...
Impasugong proposed as Bukidnon’s tribal capital
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 September) – Impasugong, Bukidnon’s 134-year old town has been proposed to be declared as the tribal capital of the province.
Provincial Board...
Bukdinon Lumad farmers decry killing of Higaonon farmer
Early in the morning of Thursday, September 1, residents near the regional office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) along the corner...
Fight vs. child labor on in Region 12
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/25 August)— The Department of Labor and Employment in Region 12 (DOLE-12) is trying to break the vicious cycle of rampant child...
GenSan steps up anti-dengue drive
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 August) – The city government has intensified its campaign for the immediate diagnosis and treatment of suspected dengue cases in...
‘Bukidnon has most number of trafficked children’
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 July) -- Most of the children who became victims of trafficking in Northern Mindanao or Region 10 came from Bukidnon, Ma....
AI report: political killings, ‘disappearances’ continue under PNoy
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 July) – Pointing out the government’s alleged inability to resolve political killings and to stop more of these incidents from recurring,...
Health secretary warns of rat-borne disease in flooded areas
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 July) – Leptorpirosis is the new problem flooded communities may to face after the water had subsided, Health Secretary Enrique Ona...
5.2M Pinoy families have no health insurance – Sec. Ona
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 July) -- Some 5.2 million families in the country have not enrolled with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth),...
Dengue cases in R12 drop by 78%
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 June) – Dengue cases in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao have dropped by at least 78 percent in the last...
Bukidnon to combat low TB detection with multi-sector alliance, info drive
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 June) -- The Bukidnon Provincial Health Office is spearheading the formation of a Bukidnon multi-sectoral alliance for the control of tuberculosis...
Mom turned away by Bukidnon hospital gives birth to triplet in ambulance; one baby...
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 June) -- The municipal health officer of Pangantucan has asked the Sangguniang Panglalawigan (provincial board) to look into the provincial hospital...
Schisto endemic in 53 Bukidnon barangays, says DOH
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 May) – Schistosomiasis is endemic in 53 of Bukidnon’s 464 barangays with five of these villages having an infection rate of...
Farmers demand extension of land use and relocation from CMU
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 May) -- It’s planting season but these farmers are in the picketlines, not in the ricefields.
Farmers belonging to the Buffalo Tamaraw...
DAR-XI’s director a no show in scheduled dialog with farmers
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 May) – As the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-XI entered its second day, regional director Yusoph Mama was a no show in the scheduled dialogue that would have discussed what the farmers claim are illegal exemption of large real estates in Davao Oriental from coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Community help key to containing schisto in Bukidnon
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – The Department of Health can control schistosomiasis in Bukidnon with the help of the community using a mix of...
7 new HIV-AIDS cases recorded in Zambo City
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/22 May) – The City Health Office here has recorded seven new cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immunodeficiency Acquired Syndrome (HIV-AIDS), from...
On RH bill: Purple Ribbon says the “ayes” have it
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 May) -- If voting on the controversial Reproductive Health Bill were done now, it will muster at least 123...
Discrimination, stigma removal are challenges in fighting HIV/AIDS
TAGAYTAY CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – The negative public attitude towards persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) such as discrimination and stigmatization, is a...
28 HIV-AIDS cases in Gensan; none involve sex workers
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 May) -- Despite the nature of their work commercial sex workers in General Santos City have so far been free...
Bukidnon seeks WHO help on schistosomiasis
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 May) -- The Bukidnon Provincial Board has passed a resolution requesting the World Health Organization (WHO) to intervene and provide financial...
Lumads decry killing of leaders
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – The Lumad communities have express alarm over the consecutive killing of three tribal leaders in Monkayo, Compostela Valley these...
Bukidnon at the bottom in TB detection in NorthMin
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – The Province of Bukidnon has a lackluster record in detecting tuberculosis cases. It is, in fact, at the bottom...
BJMP-11 lacks money for inmates’ medicine
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 May) – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Southern Mindanao’s budget for medicine is so small that it can...
Bagobo-K'latas in Kahusayan protest alleged encroachment of their land
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 Apr) – On the second day of their march for justice and land, at least 300 Bagobo K’lata lumads and farmers...