Saturday, January 19, 2008
Muslims condemn murder of priest in the Philippines
Salam/Peace:
COTABATO CITY -- Hundreds of Muslims and Christians filled the Holy Rosary Church in the Tawi-Tawi capital of Bongao, where the remains of Fr. Jesus Reynaldo “Rey” Roda were taken, Fr. Bert Layson, parish priest of Pikit, North Cotabato, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on the phone.
“They were united. Even the Muslims there brought food, according to our colleagues in Bongao,” Layson said.
[...]
Sheikh Mohammad Muntassir, head of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Da’wah (Call to Islam) Committee, said the lives of noncombatants, including priests, were held inviolable in Islam.
He said the murder of Roda was an indication of the worsening situation in the country where no one was now spared.
“We condemn this killing in the highest possible terms, and the killers deserve hell for their barbaric act,” Muntassir said.
The Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID) also denounced the killing as barbaric, and said Roda was a loss not only to his family and religious order but to “all peace-loving people.”
Read the whole article at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080118-113174/Muslims-unite-with-Christians-in-grief-for-slain-priest
COTABATO CITY -- Hundreds of Muslims and Christians filled the Holy Rosary Church in the Tawi-Tawi capital of Bongao, where the remains of Fr. Jesus Reynaldo “Rey” Roda were taken, Fr. Bert Layson, parish priest of Pikit, North Cotabato, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on the phone.
“They were united. Even the Muslims there brought food, according to our colleagues in Bongao,” Layson said.
[...]
Sheikh Mohammad Muntassir, head of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Da’wah (Call to Islam) Committee, said the lives of noncombatants, including priests, were held inviolable in Islam.
He said the murder of Roda was an indication of the worsening situation in the country where no one was now spared.
“We condemn this killing in the highest possible terms, and the killers deserve hell for their barbaric act,” Muntassir said.
The Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID) also denounced the killing as barbaric, and said Roda was a loss not only to his family and religious order but to “all peace-loving people.”
Read the whole article at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080118-113174/Muslims-unite-with-Christians-in-grief-for-slain-priest
