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<blockquote data-quote="MovingForward2050" data-source="post: 1328736" data-attributes="member: 18126"><p>I had never heard of them, but this is not good... They have only recently had some very vicious and murderous power struggles in their leadership... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation did a controversial story about them, which they stood by.</p><p></p><p>From Wikipedia...</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Leadership controversy</strong></span></p><p></p><p>"Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Iglesia_ni_Cristo_leadership_controversy" target="_blank">2015 Iglesia ni Cristo leadership controversy</a></p><p>During mid 2015, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Iglesia_ni_Cristo_leadership_controversy" target="_blank">internal conflicts</a> challenged the century-old church. Felix Nathaniel "Angel" Manalo, the brother of current executive minister, Eduardo V. Manalo, and their mother, Cristina "Tenny" Manalo, the widow of former executive minister Eraño G. Manalo, uploaded a video to YouTube alleging that the INC administration had threatened their lives and that there has been a mass kidnapping of ministers. The Iglesia ni Cristo, however, denied the claims of kidnapping. In July 23, 2015, Eduardo expelled his two brothers, one of three sisters, and mother, for allegedly trying to create a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schism" target="_blank">schism</a> in the church and take over the church's leadership.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-99" target="_blank">[98]</a></p><p></p><p>Former INC ministerial worker Lowell Menorca II stated his life and that of his family were threatened by the INC administration, which led the Canadian government to grant him asylum, stating "When the panel considers the links between the INC and the law enforcement authorities in the Philippines... [t]he panel is satisfied Menorca would be unable to avail himself of state protection, from the risks that he fears in that country."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-100" target="_blank">[99]</a> The Immigration and Refugee Board has found the Philippines-based church "is motivated by a vendetta" and has "both the means and the motivation to seriously harm or kill" him, should he return to the Philippines. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-101" target="_blank">[100]</a></p><p></p><p>In response to these issues, the Church Administration launched the program “<em>Tunay</em> <em>Na Defenders Of The Faith” (The True Defenders Of The Faith)</em> on March 31, 2018, on YouTube and Facebook, dismissing allegations made by the expelled."</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Suppression of critics</strong></span></p><p></p><p>"An expelled member Rovic Gloria Canono was arrested on November 2015 over a case filed by his wife, allegedly under the direction of the INC. Canono was allegedly behind the critical Facebook page "Sher Lock” and blog "Silent No More" which accuses corruption within the church's ranks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-102" target="_blank">[101]</a> Canono fled the Philippines after being charged with various cases by church members, including a libel case by the church’s top leader Eduardo V. Manalo.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-103" target="_blank">[102]</a> Canono arrived and applied for asylum in Canada in December 2016.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-104" target="_blank">[103]</a> In a hearing on February 2017, his claim was accepted by the Immigration and Refugee Board on the basis of religious persecution as mandated by the United Nations Convention on Refugees of 1951. Like Menorca, Canono is now a resident of Canada.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-105" target="_blank">[104]</a>"</p><p></p><p><strong>Death of Lito Fruto</strong></p><p></p><p>"Another figure in the 2015 church crisis was a US citizen living in the Philippines. American Lito Fruto was expelled from the INC in the early part of 2015 because of his critical statements against the church leadership, which had been rocked by corruption scandals and allegations of abductions supposedly perpetrated by top INC officials.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-auto-106" target="_blank">[105]</a> He was initially under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_protection" target="_blank">witness protection</a> program by the Philippine government in April 2015, as he claimed to have received threats due to his allegations against the INC leadership.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-107" target="_blank">[106]</a> In November 2015, he filed a complaint against members of the INC's top administrative body, the Sanggunian, accusing them of coercion, harassment, threats, and arbitrary detention. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-108" target="_blank">[107]</a> Fruto said that he had been forcibly taken at gunpoint from his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloocan" target="_blank">Caloocan</a> residence based on a complaint of alleged rape against him, which he said was fabricated by INC.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-auto-106" target="_blank">[105]</a> Fruto believed that they were held by the INC against their will because of their supposed exposes against the church.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-109" target="_blank">[108]</a> He also said the judge in the rape case, who also issued Fruto a hold departure order, was a member of the INC.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-110" target="_blank">[109]</a></p><p></p><p>Fruto was shot several times by an unidentified gunman as he was driving along Cavitex Exit in Barangay Marulas, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawit,_Cavite" target="_blank">Kawit, Cavite</a>, around 1:30 am on May 24, 2017. Several excommunicated INC members allege that the killing may have been perpetrated by church officials, whom Fruto has publicly spoken out against.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-auto-106" target="_blank">[105]</a>"</p><p></p><p><strong>Abductions and murders</strong></p><p></p><p>"A few weeks prior to the assassination of church critic Lito Fruto, two more sympathizers of the family members of the late INC Executive Minister Erano G. Manalo have gone missing. On April 11, 2017, Danilo Patungan was abducted while on his way to work as a security guard in a condominium building in Bonifacio Global City. He served as security personnel to Nathaniel ‘Angel’ Manalo for 16 years. He remains missing to this day. A few days after Patungan was abducted, Felix Villocino disappeared too. Villocino has long been delivering food supplies to the Manalo residence in Tandang Sora, Quezon City. Several former members of the church believed that these disappearances were a repeat of the abductions committed by the church against its own ministers in 2015 when the feud between the current INC leader Eduardo V. Manalo and his siblings Angel V. Manalo and Lottie Manalo-Hemedez became public knowledge. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-111" target="_blank">[110]</a> Villocino was expelled after he openly supported Angel Manalo by delivering food supplies for the besieged Manalo siblings. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-112" target="_blank">[111]</a> Villocino's bullet-riddled body was found the following day in a grassy portion of Barangay Malamig, Bustos, Bulacan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-113" target="_blank">[112]</a>"</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><em>The Fifth Estate</em> coverage</strong></span></p><p></p><p>"On November 11, 2018, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" target="_blank">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</a>'s <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Estate_(TV_series)" target="_blank">The Fifth Estate</a></em> hosted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McKeown" target="_blank">Bob McKeown</a> featured INC on their episode "The Church of Secrets" that followed the story of a widow of a murder victim allegedly killed by INC members after a series of verbal altercations, and the story of excommunicated ministerial worker Lowell Menorca II, who seeks refugee status in Canada. The news crew also attempted to land an interview with Eduardo V. Manalo after an event in Sacramento but were denied. During their attempt to land the interview, their vehicle's tires were slashed, which McKeown suspected was an act of intimidation by INC. An INC member denied the allegation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-114" target="_blank">[113]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-115" target="_blank">[114]</a> In February 2019, the CBC and <em>The Fifth Estate</em> were sued by INC for defamation, with officials calling the show "slanderous" and "without evidence". CBC News responded by stating they stand behind the story.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-116" target="_blank">[115]"</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MovingForward2050, post: 1328736, member: 18126"] I had never heard of them, but this is not good... They have only recently had some very vicious and murderous power struggles in their leadership... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation did a controversial story about them, which they stood by. From Wikipedia... [SIZE=5][B]Leadership controversy[/B][/SIZE] "Main article: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Iglesia_ni_Cristo_leadership_controversy']2015 Iglesia ni Cristo leadership controversy[/URL] During mid 2015, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Iglesia_ni_Cristo_leadership_controversy']internal conflicts[/URL] challenged the century-old church. Felix Nathaniel "Angel" Manalo, the brother of current executive minister, Eduardo V. Manalo, and their mother, Cristina "Tenny" Manalo, the widow of former executive minister Eraño G. Manalo, uploaded a video to YouTube alleging that the INC administration had threatened their lives and that there has been a mass kidnapping of ministers. The Iglesia ni Cristo, however, denied the claims of kidnapping. In July 23, 2015, Eduardo expelled his two brothers, one of three sisters, and mother, for allegedly trying to create a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schism']schism[/URL] in the church and take over the church's leadership.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-99'][98][/URL] Former INC ministerial worker Lowell Menorca II stated his life and that of his family were threatened by the INC administration, which led the Canadian government to grant him asylum, stating "When the panel considers the links between the INC and the law enforcement authorities in the Philippines... [t]he panel is satisfied Menorca would be unable to avail himself of state protection, from the risks that he fears in that country."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-100'][99][/URL] The Immigration and Refugee Board has found the Philippines-based church "is motivated by a vendetta" and has "both the means and the motivation to seriously harm or kill" him, should he return to the Philippines. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-101'][100][/URL] In response to these issues, the Church Administration launched the program “[I]Tunay[/I] [I]Na Defenders Of The Faith” (The True Defenders Of The Faith)[/I] on March 31, 2018, on YouTube and Facebook, dismissing allegations made by the expelled." [SIZE=5][B]Suppression of critics[/B][/SIZE] "An expelled member Rovic Gloria Canono was arrested on November 2015 over a case filed by his wife, allegedly under the direction of the INC. Canono was allegedly behind the critical Facebook page "Sher Lock” and blog "Silent No More" which accuses corruption within the church's ranks.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-102'][101][/URL] Canono fled the Philippines after being charged with various cases by church members, including a libel case by the church’s top leader Eduardo V. Manalo.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-103'][102][/URL] Canono arrived and applied for asylum in Canada in December 2016.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-104'][103][/URL] In a hearing on February 2017, his claim was accepted by the Immigration and Refugee Board on the basis of religious persecution as mandated by the United Nations Convention on Refugees of 1951. Like Menorca, Canono is now a resident of Canada.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-105'][104][/URL]" [B]Death of Lito Fruto[/B] "Another figure in the 2015 church crisis was a US citizen living in the Philippines. American Lito Fruto was expelled from the INC in the early part of 2015 because of his critical statements against the church leadership, which had been rocked by corruption scandals and allegations of abductions supposedly perpetrated by top INC officials.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-auto-106'][105][/URL] He was initially under the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_protection']witness protection[/URL] program by the Philippine government in April 2015, as he claimed to have received threats due to his allegations against the INC leadership.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-107'][106][/URL] In November 2015, he filed a complaint against members of the INC's top administrative body, the Sanggunian, accusing them of coercion, harassment, threats, and arbitrary detention. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-108'][107][/URL] Fruto said that he had been forcibly taken at gunpoint from his [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloocan']Caloocan[/URL] residence based on a complaint of alleged rape against him, which he said was fabricated by INC.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-auto-106'][105][/URL] Fruto believed that they were held by the INC against their will because of their supposed exposes against the church.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-109'][108][/URL] He also said the judge in the rape case, who also issued Fruto a hold departure order, was a member of the INC.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-110'][109][/URL] Fruto was shot several times by an unidentified gunman as he was driving along Cavitex Exit in Barangay Marulas, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawit,_Cavite']Kawit, Cavite[/URL], around 1:30 am on May 24, 2017. Several excommunicated INC members allege that the killing may have been perpetrated by church officials, whom Fruto has publicly spoken out against.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-auto-106'][105][/URL]" [B]Abductions and murders[/B] "A few weeks prior to the assassination of church critic Lito Fruto, two more sympathizers of the family members of the late INC Executive Minister Erano G. Manalo have gone missing. On April 11, 2017, Danilo Patungan was abducted while on his way to work as a security guard in a condominium building in Bonifacio Global City. He served as security personnel to Nathaniel ‘Angel’ Manalo for 16 years. He remains missing to this day. A few days after Patungan was abducted, Felix Villocino disappeared too. Villocino has long been delivering food supplies to the Manalo residence in Tandang Sora, Quezon City. Several former members of the church believed that these disappearances were a repeat of the abductions committed by the church against its own ministers in 2015 when the feud between the current INC leader Eduardo V. Manalo and his siblings Angel V. Manalo and Lottie Manalo-Hemedez became public knowledge. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-111'][110][/URL] Villocino was expelled after he openly supported Angel Manalo by delivering food supplies for the besieged Manalo siblings. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-112'][111][/URL] Villocino's bullet-riddled body was found the following day in a grassy portion of Barangay Malamig, Bustos, Bulacan.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-113'][112][/URL]" [SIZE=5][B][I]The Fifth Estate[/I] coverage[/B][/SIZE] "On November 11, 2018, the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation']Canadian Broadcasting Corporation[/URL]'s [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Estate_(TV_series)']The Fifth Estate[/URL][/I] hosted by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McKeown']Bob McKeown[/URL] featured INC on their episode "The Church of Secrets" that followed the story of a widow of a murder victim allegedly killed by INC members after a series of verbal altercations, and the story of excommunicated ministerial worker Lowell Menorca II, who seeks refugee status in Canada. The news crew also attempted to land an interview with Eduardo V. Manalo after an event in Sacramento but were denied. During their attempt to land the interview, their vehicle's tires were slashed, which McKeown suspected was an act of intimidation by INC. An INC member denied the allegation.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-114'][113][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-115'][114][/URL] In February 2019, the CBC and [I]The Fifth Estate[/I] were sued by INC for defamation, with officials calling the show "slanderous" and "without evidence". CBC News responded by stating they stand behind the story.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo#cite_note-116'][115]"[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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