MIS:the Degeneration of the Philippine missionary work

   For about seven years now, we have been printing the progress, or
rather the degeneration, of the Philippine government as it leans
toward the Pope stronger and stronger, until finally Cardinal Sin got
his female candidate in as President. This was done to set up a Roman
Catholic church state that would cooperate with the Communists in
closing down the American military bases in the Philippines and getting
rid of opposition to Catholicism in the religious realm.

   The latest from the Philippines comes from a national Filipino
pastor, who says, "Equally disheartening is the case of one Protestant
church in Digos, Davao, several hundreds of kilometers south of Manila.
This church refused to cooperate with the Communists in their area.
Because of their refusal, on Sunday, June 25, during their regular
service, with attendance of forty men, women, and children, some one
hundred heavily armed Communists invaded and massacred the entire
congregation. The pastor who was begging for mercy was beheaded. I have
already visited this place and left one of our national pastors and his
family to start a fundamental, Bible believing church in that area.
Please pray for the safety of our Christian workers."

   The members of the Communist army in the Philippines, as the members
of the terrorist army in Ireland, are predominantly Roman Catholic. In
Ireland these Roman Catholics are called the IRA. In the Philippines
they are called the NPA. They kill Protestant Christians.

   "Late August, thirteen were taken hostage and four brutally killed
from a group of Christians ministering to prisoners in Davao City,
which triggered varying reactions from the people. The President, for
one, had expressed concern over religious groups being permitted to
conduct activities in jails in spite of the risk involved."

   The religious groups doing the work in the jail were Bible believing
Baptists.
