Groups condemn killing of Italian priest
By Bong S. Sarmiento and Malu Cadeliña Manar

KORONADAL CITY (Updated) — Several groups and individuals condemned Monday the killing of an Italian priest who is a known advocate against corporate and large-scale mining in North Cotabato province.

Cristina Palabay, of the End Impunity Alliance, said Fr. Fausto Tentorio’s public position against big corporate mining in the province and his advocacy for the rights of farmers and indigenous peoples is “a testament to his selflessness.”

Tentorio was gunned down around 7:30 a.m. Monday inside the parish of the Mother of Perpetual Help in Arakan Valley town in North Cotabato just as he was preparing to leave his convent for a clergy meeting in Kidapawan City.

Tentorio was the third missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) to be killed in Mindanao. He is a compatriot of Fr. Tullio Favali, who was killed by paramilitary men led by cult leader Norberto Manero on April 11, 1985 in Tulunan, North Cotabato, and Fr. Salvatore Carzedda, who was assassinated by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Zamboanga City on March 20, 1992.

Arakan Valley Councilor Leonardo Reovoca, former parish worker of the Diocese of Kidapawan, said Fr. Tentorio was about to board his pickup truck when a lone gunman approached him and shot him twice on his head.

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