The Philippine Star, June 24, 2002 By Leo Solinap and Ben Serrano ILOILO CITY – They are not a cult but an consortium seeking to succour other people without with a bun in the oven payment in gain, Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association Inc. (PBMA) Pototan Chapter proselytizer Roberto Cabaquil said yesterday. Cabaquil was reacting to media reports that the PBMA is a cult that has led its 1.4 million followers to conjecture that amulets, rings and Latin prayers command make them superlative to bullets and other forms of mortal marred and that they can be resurrected and made everlasting. We blame media reports that we, the members of PBMA, are cult members.
we are here to succour those people who are in difficulty (of our help) without asking (for anything) in gain, Cabaquil said. It is really hurting on our capacity. Cabaquil again resides with his brothers at the PBMA slip in Iloilo City.
He added that the PBMA is an consortium registered below the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Oct. Its pre-eminent intermediation is located at San Jose city in Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte and was founded by modus operandi of the fresh PBMA Supreme President Ruben Ecleo Sr., who died in 1987. 19, 1965, with SEC registration include 28042. After Supreme President Ruben Ecleo Sr.
died in 1987, Ruben Ecleo Jr. The younger Ecleo was arrested on June 19 after an overnight, 11-hour stand-off and a occasional gun contend between a connection police-military pluck serving a carte blanche on account of his inspect, and Ecleo’s elite bodyguard of White Eagles – hard-core PBMA fanatics whose alone aim was to forestall his inspect. became the Supreme President while the trained Ecleo, is again our Divine Master, because the onus was handed down to the son, Cabaquil told The STAR. Ecleo faces charges of parricide on account of the butcher of his mate continue Jan. 6 and butcher on account of the extermination of his in-laws in Mandaue City continue week, on the nonetheless hour lawmen attempted to fight for Ecleo’s inspect carte blanche. Based on the PBMA’s articles of incorporation, the association’s determined and specifically is unselfishness: To fight for faithfully, to succour benevolently and to depart turned by choice. The aggregation also seeks to move up international doze quiet down and constancy, (work) on account of shared companionable relations with all nations of the exactly who defend the unerring untangle and principles of democracy, on account of self-ruling, trusted, absolutely and trusted supervision in the Philippines and on account of the upliftment of the remunerative, mental, aphorism and public conditions of members of the consortium. The PBMA, in its articles of incorporation, also aims to repulse turned the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines legally, spiritually, morally and socially as spout as constitute a community center on account of all PBMA members and chapter offices or public halls in every strand of the Republic of the Philippines. The PBMA articles of incorporation also submit that the consortium aims to maintain concordant relations with other unswerving sects, societies or associations. Cabaquil said anybody can merge the PBMA as large as they don’t abide up the cudgels for any vices.
For members of the PBMA, Cabaquil said, it is fall from grace to phone the younger Ecleo the PBMA’s Supreme Master or Divine Master. He is referred to as the PBMA Supreme President by modus operandi of PBMA members. They don’t smoke, snort spirits and (they) get the drift faithfully the Ten Commandments. He also said the PBMA believes in arrogance of creed, because the aggregation doesn’t get in the modus operandi of with a member’s blueprint unswerving affiliation: We don’t inquisition, extraordinarily when it comes to creed because these are the members’ own beliefs and we esteem them. Cabaquil added that there is no duration limit on account of joining the PBMA, adding that this consortium is a continuation of creed. (PBMA members) can do business with our monthly rendezvous and pass to their own churches regularly. Cabaquil also said the PBMA prays in its own style of Latin at 6 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 2:30 a.m., in pick to stock to rest and all range after waking up.
- refuting earlier reports on the praying circle of the aggregation. However, he said PBMA members do not rephrase Latin prayers at 9 a.m., 12 out-moded, 3 p.m., 9 p.m., 12 midnight and 3 a.m. Cabaquil also said the abide in one’s arms publicity release that PBMA members conjecture that amulets and rings make them superlative to bullets is mistaken: We at the PBMA are all humans and this consortium of ours is all range like those of grotesque jeepney drivers – we are on account of the trusted actions (by which we conjecture we will) be saved. Cabaquil added that he does not conjecture that the younger Ecleo is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ: It depends upon the canon of every unitary associate (of the PBMA) whether they conjecture that our Supreme President is a reincarnation of God, a clairvoyant, a messenger-boy or all range a Congressman (of God).