The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has terminated its agreement with the religious group Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) for managing a portion of the Siargao Island Protected Landscape and Seascape. The move comes after the DENR discovered…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Monday announced that it has terminated an agreement awarding alleged cult Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated (SBSI), a vast protected area in Surigao del Norte. The Protected Area Community-Based…[Continue Reading...]
How could the Socorro cult controversy have been allowed to happen before the very eyes of the government --both the LGUs and the national government agencies? Should the municipal mayor and provincial governor, including the DILG municipal, provincial and regional…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines – Prosecutors filed more than a dozen cases against leaders of the controversial group Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated (SBSI) before a regional court in Dapa, Surigao del Norte. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the group, led by…[Continue Reading...]
When Jey Rence Quilario was just 17 years old, he managed to convince the members of his small Filipino village that he was their only saviour. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in 2019, villagers say the charismatic young…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded its preliminary investigation on the criminal complaints filed against 13 members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI), an alleged cult in Surigao del Norte. DOJ Undersecretary Mico Clavano said…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — Members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) have admitted to diverting government aid meant for indigent senior citizens and beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to fund the group. They made the admissions during…[Continue Reading...]
SURIGAO DEL NORTE, Philippines – Randolph Balbarino, who used to be a follower of Surigao del Norte “cult” leader Jay Rence Quilario said on Saturday, October 14, that Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated (SBSI) prohibited members from seeking hospital care outside…[Continue Reading...]
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, the architect of the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs, spoke about the need to uphold human rights as he addressed members of an alleged cult accused of child abuse…[Continue Reading...]
Sen. Ronald dela Rosa will be flying to Surigao del Norte province on Saturday to personally lead the search for a supposed mass grave of a group whose leaders were accused of forcing teenage girls to marry older men. In…[Continue Reading...]
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