Cotabato cathedral not target of bombing, says bishop
(Again, Allow me to repost this update on today's Cotobato bombing from CBCPNEWS) COTABATO, July 5, 2009—Cotabato Archbishop Orlando B. Quevedo, OMI has called on all the Catholic faithful to pray for all the innocent victims, those who have died, those who are fighting got their lives in hospitals and those who have been injured” after an improvised incendiary device exploded at the heart of the city, a few meters from the Immaculate Conception Cathedral at about 8:40 A.M. today. The prelate said the bomb was planted in a lechon house and not in the cathedral or in cathedral grounds where many cars were parked. He said “to say the attack was intended against the Cathedral and against churchgoers would be stretching the facts to the limit.” The bombing which reportedly killed five persons and injured some 35 others “took place not while people were going out after Mass, but while the Mass was going on,” in fact when the archbishop was about to conclude his homily. “Most of those in...