Good Shepherd Sisters and members of various religious congregations gathered October 22 to stage a prayer rally and lighting of candles for Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME who was killed October 17 in Mindanao.
Sisters and friends prayed the rosary and made a procession towards Aurora Boulevard where they lighted candles for Fr. Tentorio.
Fr. Tentorio, 59 years old, was an Italian Missionary, a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME).
He was a beloved missionary of 31 years, 28 of which had been spent in Mindanao. With zeal, he pursued the service for the downtrodden in Mindanao: the farmers and the indigenous peoples.
Earlier, the Good Shepherd Sisters in Mindanao also issued a statement denouncing the brutal killing of Fr. Tentorio. They also called to put an end to impunity, "
Statement of the RGS in Mindanao.
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