MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume X, No. 144
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Wed-Thu, April 28-29, 2021
Catholic priests get COVID-19, churches in MisOr shutdown By CRIS DIAZ, xecutive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Roman Catholic churches in Misamis Oriental were padlocked starting Wednesday until May 10, Msgr. Rey Monsanto said here. Monsanto, an official of the Roman Catholic Archdioceses here, said that the churches would undergo disinfection after the assigned priest were found COVID-19 positive. He said the priests were now confined in various hospitals along with some convent staff and employees who were also found COVID +19 positive.
The following Roman Catholic churches were located in the municipal towns of Laguindimgan, Alubijid, Tagoloan and Jasaan, all in Misamis Oriental. In Cagayan de Oro City, the churches in the villages (barangays) of Carmen and Gusa and the Nazareno Church in the city’s downtown district were also temporarily closed. Monsanto said that the churches would reopen on May 10 after undergoing massive disinfections and when the affected personnel, including the
CLOSED FOR WORSHIP. The Jesus Nazareno Parish, where the replica of the Black Nazarene statue is housed, is one of the six Catholic churches in Cagayan de Oro City and Misamis Oriental province ordered temporarily closed for 10 days beginning April 28, 2021. The order comes from the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro under Archbishop Jose Cabantan on Tuesday (April 27, 2021), as a preemptive measure, following a surge of Covid-19 cases that infected parishioners and members of the clergy. (File photo courtesy of C agayan de O ro City Information Office)
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‘Power bloc’ eyes 12 seats in Congress By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
BUTUAN CITY -- Electric cooperative consumers throughout the country who helped sent four party-list lawmakers in Congress in 2019 elections are now pushing to elect eight more nominees in next year’s polls. A consensus was reached on Monday here by Caraga Rural Electric Cooperatives, Association Member Consumers Owners (CRECA MCO) Convergence event at the LMX Convention Center where national leaders of the National Center of Electric Cooperative Consumers, Inc (NCECCO) formally announced their political goals See EYES, page 11
A slide shows the target of the National Center of Electric Cooperative Consumers, Inc (NCECCO) of at least 1.2 million votes from the total of 6.8 million voters in wester Mindanao, Northern Mindanao and Caraga region for the Ako Padayon Pilipino Party-list as presented by Edmundo Pacamalan Jr, executive director of One Electric Cooperative Network Foundation (OECNF) who is also political consultant of the power bloc in Congress. CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN
P 3.4 million illegal drugs busted in Cagayan de Oro By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: A big-time drug syndicate, believed protected by an unidentified top official, is busted with the seizure of illegal drugs worth P 3.4
million during a drug buy bust operations that led to the arrest of the “courier” here Tuesday afternoon. The operations were carried out by police operatives from Region 9 in Zamboanga Peninsula in
coordination with the local police and the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) here. Police identified the suspects as only “Ian” and “Ana,” the alleged courier, for fear that the members
of the drug syndicate, now the subject of follow up operations might elude the drag net. “Joey,” the police team leader from Zamboanga’s drug enforcement group See BUSTED, page 11