Mining goes on in Zamboanga as anti-mining advocates await SC ruling

Dipolog Bishop Jose Manguiran said mining operations in Siocon has been going on with no let up under the Toronto Ventures, Inc. known as TVI, a Canadian mining company.

?€œ[It has been said that] even the lumad leader has been co-opted by the company and now openly advocates for mining,?€ he added.

The staunch anti-mining prelate said they are still awaiting the resolution from the Supreme Court of their petition under the Writ of Kalikasan but has not received any feedback as yet.
He lamented how mining companies can go around the law.

The anti-mining advocates earlier sought an injunction from the Supreme Court of the Philippines seeking the suspension of mining operations in the Dioceses of Pagadian and Dipolog, in the provinces Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga Sibugay.

Sustained efforts vs RH Bill

The diocese will have its Pastoral Assembly from Oct. 17-20 to review the programs undertaken by its Basic Ecclesial Communities.

Manguiran said that the diocese has sustained its efforts against the reproductive health bill.

?€œWe are strengthening our Basic Ecclesial Communities here,?€ the 75 year-old prelate told CBCPNews. He added they already had a demonstration against the bill some three months ago.

Every after their celebration of the Holy Mass, an obligatory prayer is said in Cebuano calling for divine intervention to prevent the controversial bill?€™s enactment into law.

He added that he called on the Catholic faithful to regularly pray the Holy Rosary from October this year until 2012 as mandated by Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines as there are many events going on, such as destruction of the environment in the series of natural disasters. (Melo M. Acuna)

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