‘Northern Samar is becoming a killing field’
According to Monsignor Walter Cerbito of the diocese of Catarman, Northern Samar, nobody is safe anymore in his province, not even priests, as the militarization intensifies. The murder of the Reverend Cecilio Lucero only underscored the worsening human-rights violations there.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – A historic meeting on Saturday of about 250 Catholic priests from all over the country urged the Arroyo government to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of the Reverend Cecilio Lucero, the parish priest of Catubig, Northern Samar. In a mass led by Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, the priests also dedicated prayers and called for justice for all victims of extra-judicial killings in the country.
“Our province is becoming a killing field — nobody is safe, not even priests,” Monsignor Walter Cerbito of the diocese of Catarman, Northern Samar, told Bulatlat on the sidelines of the unprecedented three-day national assembly of Catholic priests. It was an occasion for “national discernment on their prophetic role.”
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