Religious sector leads community action
MULTI-SECTORAL PLAN VS. RISING CRIMES
TAYUG–Pastors and priests here won more community support for their plan to end the series of killings in the town by unknown assassins.
A meeting is set for today led by Rev. Carlos Ebreo, minister of the Church of Christ in Tayug and president of the town’s Association of Christian Churches (ACC) to finalize activities for the planned community action.
Ten more church ministers are joining the initial 15 who have expressed support for the multi-sectoral mass action against crimes.
The ACC comprises of the Methodist Church, United Chuch of Christ, Baptist Church, Evangelical College, Assembly of God, Independent Church, Catholic Church, Pentecostal Christian Church and other religious denominations.
Ebreo initiated the call for mass action following the rampant killings that started after the May 10 elections.
At least nine people, two of them incumbent councilmen and one former barangay chairman, have been killed by still unidentified perpetrators since after the election.
Pastor Dominador Ubaldo, also administrator of the Tayug Family Hospital where most of the victims were rushed for treatment, said the fear and tension has gripped the populace with the continued violence and seeming helplessness of government authorities to curb it. .
“There is a sense of urgency in doing a multi-sectoral action against crimes because our people are already alarmed,” said Ubaldo, also a member of ACC.
The group said some of the killings are likely politically-motivated as the victims acted as campaign coordinators of losing candidates.
Some barangay officials who also campaigned actively for certain candidates in the last polls are now in hiding for fear that they would be targeted as the next victims.–LM
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