Behind the Iglesia Ni Cristo's King Maker Role: A Chain of Crimes and Mythical Numbers

by truthoriented | September 10, 2008 at 10:14 pm

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How do we define a king maker? What are its role? This article dig deeply into the power structure of a religious group which boasts of its bloc voting powers, peddling this power for politicians who are themselves desiring to make a landslide victory in an electoral race.  But what gives?

Unlike Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s long, heated rivalry in the 2008 US presidential campaign, there are politicians in other countries who choose to take the short cut to political power by wooing the kingmaker. Instead of patiently reaching out to the electorate, these politicians seek the person or group of people who has the capacity to influence the conclusion of a political run, a method that assures the former’s promise of the future in exchange for the latter’s favor.

On a different perspective, however, a kingmaker isn’t a kingmaker for nothing. Take for example Kakuei Tanaka, the most prominent political kingmaker in Japan. He served as Japan’s Prime Minister during 1972-74. But even after his term, he remained dominant and influential. Even though he got involved in political scandals, he was able to choke the Prime Minister at will without holding a position in the cabinet.

Monetary, arms, and politics are common players in a kingmaker scenario. More often than not, these factors entail negative effects to the government. In the Philippines, however, there is another player: religion. And the effect of this kingmaker, as far as records are concerned, is unexpectedly catastrophic. It is a chain of crimes and power - behind mythical numbers yet.

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truthoriented

This group should be the one that the Interpol should investigate though.

The article dissected very carefully this group's trouble, e.g., the root of all their troubles - their founder and head, Felix Manalo who has a shady past, as rapist of women. 

I just hope many people will get to read this article so the people will learn and weigh who is telling the truth and understand where the riff between the Iglesia ni Cristo and Ang Dating Daan started from.

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ELIAS IBARRA

Roberto Clarita,

The INTERPOL should and must continue to hunt down the pseudo-preacher Eliseo Fernando Soriano in order for the public to have a safer environment from the criminals!!! He is presently in Rome, Italy and is wantonly spending the produce of his scam!!! He is in hiding for the second time after he faked his release papers for the sodomy charges filed against him!!! All ports of entry should be closed for this wanted fugitive!!!

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ELIAS IBARRA

Roberto Clarita,

The shady past of Eliseo Fernando Soriano will continue to haunt him although he may succeed in hiding himself from the clutches of the law. No matter what kind of yellow journalism is being practiced by his chigoes such as yourself, time will come that what is veiled shall be revealed and the criminal pseudo-preacher will no longer escape punishment.

The Iglesia Ni Cristo or Church of Christ does not have trouble with the authorities but the opposite is true with the cult, Ang Dating Daan, headed by the criminal fugitive who blames anything that happens to him  because of his hardheadedness such as his pending sodomy case for which he is on the run!!! He has several more criminal cases filed against him and of which he became a self-styled recidivist!!! Woe unto this purveyor of falsity and character assassinations!!! A warning to you: Aiding, Abetting, Helping, and Covering-up for a criminal fugitive is against the law for this would prevent justice from taking its natural course!!! I hope you have learned your lessons from one of the convicted journalist in the Philippines who was doing mis-information instead of inspiring for the truth to come out!!!    

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Jack Fabian

I smell something Fishy...

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ELIAS IBARRA

Jack Fabian,

You are right that something is fishy here!!! For the chigoes of the criminal pseudo-preacher are trying to hide the sodomy case of the leader of the "Ang Dating Daan" Eliseo Fernando Soriano who is under international manhunt by the INTERPOL. He is on the run for the second time but still wants to continue with the frenzy of scamming in collusion with paid pseudo-writers such as Robert Clarita!!! They succeeded in victimmizing some of their cult members and the result of the scam were deposited in Switzerland by the Houdini of Lies and a part of the money is being used by the said leader in glorifying his lovers!!!

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SA totoo lang...

The Ang Dating Daan group killed no one!

It is the Iglesia ni Cristo (MANALO) group that killed many!

So how can you say that "The Iglesia Ni Cristo or Church of Christ does not have trouble with the authorities..." OH.... SORRY!!! Yes it it true they dont have touble with the authorities...... because they have power over the authoritiesin the Philippines!!! and that is the FACT! They control corrupt Politicians, because they are the same.

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ELIAS IBARRA

Robert Clarita,

Sa totoo lang or truthfully speaking, the one accusing the Iglesia Ni Cristo is on the run!!! Of course, Eliang Soriano, the cult leader has the money to pay yellow journalist in order to clean up her badly damaged man-raping reputation!!! A pseudo-preacher raped a man and that is the story here which the writer is trying to cover up!!! Aiding and abetting a wanted criminal is a crime in itself!!! Let the criminal Eliseo Fernando Soriano be leashed!!! Help in his capture so that the world including Europe, America, and Canada would be safer places to live!!!  

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SA totoo lang...

Few example of how wicked the INCM ministers , pity to those mislead followers....

Murder Cases

On February 28, 1989, an angered Iglesia Ni Cristo minister shot two men with a .38 caliber pistol in Baranggay Lamot II, Calauang, Laguna, as reported by Jun Tiosen in newspaper, “Abante.” Calauang Police Station Commander Lt. Romulo Endaya identified the minister as Joseph Dadoy of Ma. Victoria Poultry Farm of that town. The victims Ronaldo Arogancia, 22, and Ricardo Ortiz, 32, both reside in Baranggay Lamot I were drunk during the incident. According to the investigation of Pfc. Milencio Nuñez, Dadoy was having a meeting with his fellow INC members when the victims came around 6:45 p.m. and mocked their religion. Dadoy, after some exchange of words with the two drunk men, was infuriated and shot the victims. Arogancia died while being treated in Laguna Provincial Hospital due to a gunshot at the chest, while Ortiz was shot once at each thigh and was treated in San Pablo Doctor Hospital. The INC minister was arrested and imprisoned in Calauang Municipal Jail.

Three years after the shooting incident, on March 1992, four Iglesia Ni Cristo deacons butchered five students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in the basement at the back of the INC chapel in Sta. Mesa, Manila. What escalated into a cold-blooded murder started only from a heated dispute during a basketball game. The corpses of the victims were later fished out of the murky waters of Pasig River.

According to Supreme Court Reports Annotated (SCRA), in August 28, 2000 Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. rendered judgment on the case “PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JUANITO ABELLA, DIOSDADO GRANADA, BENJAMIN DE GUZMAN, and EDGARDO VALENCIA, accused-appellants,” where the four accused in these cases, who are deacons of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, were declared guilty beyond reasonable doubt on five (5) counts of MURDER. The record states “That on or about March 8, 1992, in the City of Manila, Philippines, the said accused, conspiring and confederating together with others whose true names, real identities and present whereabouts are still unknown and helping one another, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, with intent to kill and with treachery and evident premeditation, attack, assault and use personal violence upon one Marlon Ronquillo y Alepda [(Criminal Case No. 92-104529), one Felix Tamayo y Pascual (Criminal Case No. 92-104530), one Andres Lojero, Jr. y Pascual (Criminal Case No. 92-104531), one Joseph Ronquillo y Alepda [(Criminal Case No. 92-104532), one Erwin Lojero y Pascual (Criminal Case No. 92-104533)] by then and there hitting his head with guns, kicking him, tying his hands, [neck and private organ (additional allegation in Criminal Case No. 92-104531)] and thereafter throwing his body into the river thereby inflicting upon the latter mortal wounds which were the direct and immediate cause of his death thereafter.”

Postmortem examinations on the cadavers showed signs of torture. Marlon, Andres, and Joseph had contusions, ligature marks and hematoma; they were helplessly mauled while hands tied at their backs. Marlon had lacerated wounds and was killed due to a gunshot on the head. Andres’ genitals were cut off; Joseph had skull fracture; both died due to “asphyxia by strangulation; hemorrhage, intracranial, traumatic.” On the other hand, Erwin’s body showed abrasions and burns with blunt head injury, while Felix had abrasions on the left cheek and tie impressions on the wrists. The cause of their death was “asphyxia by drowning.”

Murderers to this crime were defended by the Iglesia Ni Cristo camp up to the Supreme Court, a kind of support enjoyed by members of their church, regardless of the overwhelming evidences that prove the accused guilty of the crime. This toleration, along with their undeniably strong influence in the government, has led to encouraging these people to act beyond the limits of justice, as proven time and again by their criminal records. Significant to the execution of the crime also is the place where they had committed the crime. For these INC deacons, there seemed to be none more comfortable a place than their chapel, even for transforming into a killing field. They once taught in their official magazine, Pasugo, published in August 1969, page 17 that “We have to worship Him [God] in the house where His Spirit dwells, like the modern house of worship pictured above.” The modern house of worship mentioned refers to their chapel—now turned killing-field—where the spirit of their god dwells.

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ELIAS IBARRA

Robert Clarita,

In that area of the Philippines that you have mentioned, a lot of Iglesia Ni Cristo ministers were murdered by the communist HUKBALAHAP or People's Army Against the Japanese!!! Why? The communist were used by the apostate churches to control its rapid growth!!! The apostate churches failed and the Iglesia Ni Cristo continued to spread all over the world!!! You are selective in portraying the real story behind the killings in the Philippines!!! In fact, you used drunkards as victims of the Iglesia Ni Cristo but you did not mention what the drunkards did in order to disturb the peaceful gatherings of the Iglesia Ni Cristo members!!! We have the right to defend ourselves!!! Our body is the temple of God and we will not allow anybody to harm it!!!  

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Babel-Fish

The one thing I find amusing about this religous cult only they understand and can read the truth in the bible. It's a scam and con the leaders are only after the cash of their gulible followers.  

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ELIAS IBARRA

Babel-Fish,

You told one Filipina before that you are a Brit. Now, closely examine the history of your country and religion!!! Why was the Church of England organized? Was it because God commanded it? Or was it because someone did not like what the Catholic heirarchy was imposing on him? Your Church of England is a real cult!!! For it is a man-made fake religion coming from the Great Harlot herself!!! It is a daughter of the Great Harlot like the "Ang Dating Daan"!!! No wonder you always flock together with them although you are very ignorant of what the true religion or Church of Christ is all about!!!

Now, as to your country and religion, what did you do to India, Southwest and Southeast Asia, New World, Africa, Middle East, and Australia?  Your country and its religions perpetrated and perpetuated the greatest scams on earth!!! The world is until now reeling from what your country and religions did!!! Be ashamed of what your forefathers did!!! Be ashamed of what your religions did!!! I really find it very amusing when the already discredited scams of the centuries would try again to re-impose their theatrics in the present century!!! What a shameless try!!!!

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Phillip Garcia

Elias Ibarra a.k.a. Rizalino L. Arrabis,

Obviously, you didn't pay attention to the article linked here and went straightway to attacking the person of Eli Soriano. You have started once again with your name-calling like "Eliang Soriano" for Eli Soriano, the same reason for which your comments were deleted and your account here in Nowpublic.com was banned by Content Manager, Rob Walker.

Don't be a coward and be issue-oriented. The issue here is the long list of criminal records of the Iglesia Ni Cristo and its influence-peddling mechanism in the government. Can you not defend your church from these? You said that you have the right to defend yourself, I agree, but I do not agree that that gives you the right to carry a gun and shoot people. Why were your ministers carrying guns in the first place? On one hand the Bible, on the other a pistol? That's an unlikely picture for a minister of Christ. And don't mislead the people here saying that the article didn't mention what the drunk men did. Read again!

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edward stokwa

please explain why the ministers of iglesia ni cristo have a gun on their hands or allowed tocarry  and shoot people in order to defend themselves?    according to the bible THOU SHALT NOT KILL,then why they did?

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