Filipino Protestant churches denounce New Year’s Day bombing in coastal town

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino Protestant churches denounced the aerial strafing and bombing conducted by the Philippine military in a coastal town, on an island south of Manila, on New Year’s Day.

The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), the largest group of non-Catholic Christian churches in the Philippines, also called for the immediate release of a 24-year-old Filipino-American activist who went missing after the January 1 bombing. The activist Chantal Anicoche, who was found a week later...