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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Philippines</title>
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		<title>Christians Among Executed, Tortured People in Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23446"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/Philippines.jpg" alt="Philippines human rights violations" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Philippines human rights violations"></a> A Protestant pastor who says he was tortured while being detained in the Philippines has warned of widespread killings and other attacks against church members in the Asian nation. <br /><br />Berlin Guerrero of the United Church of Christ testified last week for the United Nations Committee against Torture, amid reports of executions and other abuses carried out by the Philippines' military. Victims have been accused of supporting rebel groups opposing the government. "Church people have not been spared from torture," Guerrero told the UN Committee]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors about cult cause panic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite assurance from police authorities that a demonic cult does not exist, hundreds of residents from villages in the Philippines evacuated to safer areas for fear they might fall victims to the alleged cult members.]]></description>
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		<title>Reports on demonic cult spur evacuation in Philippines village</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of Barangays Rodero, Kisante, Malasila, and New Bulatukan claimed they received reports that bonnet-wearing men are hunting down some 100 women as offering to their supernatural leader.]]></description>
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		<title>Robbers behead statue in Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fishermen or members of a cult group could be behind the recent stealing of the head and two hands of the Blessed Virgin Dolorosa, patron saint of the St. Paul Parish Church, in Cauayan, Negros Occidental, police said yesterday.
The incident took place almost nine months after robbers also beheaded and stole the two hands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of children held by cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL SANTOS CITY &#8211; Police in Sultan Kudarat have started looking for a cave where hundreds of children were allegedly being held captive by a cult.
An account by a 14-year-old boy who claimed to have escaped from the cult prompted authorities to search for the cave, possibly located in the mountains near Lutayan town.
The cult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibalism case leaves a pall over Narra town</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NARRA &#8212; The prosperous town of Narra was planning to promote itself as an ecotourism destination but instead has gained notoreity for a grisly cannibalism case that has shocked the Philippines.
Four men now languish in the Narra town jail, awaiting trial for allegedly killing a guest at a wedding party and eating parts of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cult link probed after gory wedding murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puerto Princesa &#8211; Filipino police have arrested four people for murdering a wedding guest, roasting and eating parts of the body and serving some of the remains at the reception, they said on Wednesday.
Narra town police chief Senior Superintendent Perla Bacuel said they were looking into the possibility that some of the suspects may have [...]]]></description>
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