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Filipino Diocese of Cabanatuan commemorates the death of murdered priest

Two years have transpired since the death of Father Richmond Nilo, from the Diocese of Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija. The parishioners commemorated the sad passing of their spiritual leader on Wednesday.

 

“Today, we commemorate the second anniversary of Fr. Richmond’s brutal death. We continue to pray that justice may be rightfully served for him,” the diocese wrote in a Facebook post.

The parishioners emphasised that they will “never forget their priest who inspired them with his life and passion.”

Nilo was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on the 10th of June 2018, just as he was about to celebrate Mass in a chapel in Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija.

He was not the only priest to have been targeted. Fr. Mark Ventura was also killed in Gattaran, Cagayan on the 29th of April of the same year, only four months after another priest named Marcelito Paez was murdered in Nueva Ecija.

Source: news.mb.com

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