Anyway, my point is that Eliseo Soriano is an international fugitive, wanted in the Philippines of the crime of homosexual rape and sodomy. Although all accused persons should be assumed innocent until proven guilty, the very fact of running from the law, and eluding justice gives a regular observer like me a strong feeling that maybe the accused is really guilty. But I digress from the my main point which is, Eliseo Soriano is an international fugitive wanted by the law. Interpol is asking for help from anyone with any information that would lead to his arrest. They are asking anyone with information to contact your local police for information.

Soriano’s group in the Philippines is still active, although not as virulent as before. They still collect money from their hapless followers to support Eliseo Soriano’s semi-permanent vacation overseas, living in a nice house and touring the world while his followers, most belonging to poor families, continue to struggle in this difficult time. Soriano’s group know where he his but would not help the police to locate him. Isn’t that continued harboring of a fugitive? I don’t know if there is a Philippine law concerning this, but in the U.S., this could get you in jail.

A few other people would probably know where he is. Soriano posted their names and telephone number on his youtube site.

Here are the names and numbers of the people who may know where Eliseo Soriano is and should inform the local police of his whereabouts. I wonder what would happen if I send this page to the police in all the countries listed below?

Philippines
(02) 455-8480
(02) 455-8482
(02) 455-8484

UNITED KINGDOM:
Bro. Ramon Bernardo:
+447810824237
Bro. Noel Gonzales:
+447799217028
Sis. Vhe Privado:
+447919532087
Locale No.:
+442082889651

SINGAPORE:
Bro. Aga Caacbay:
+ 6596777627
Bro. Michael del Rosario:
+6597442121
Bro. Robert Navoa:
+6597270842
Bro. Jun Gundayao:
+6591915513

HONG KONG:
Bro. Nang Fat Sze:
(852)62590045
Bro. Ferdie Petalio:
(852)62296075

Guilty!

No, not yet anyway. It’s just such a catchy title that I couldn’t resist.
But I am wondering. If ever Eliseo Soriano, founder, former presiding minister and former leader of the cult Ang Dating Daan – MCGI would ever decide to surrender or get caught and extradited back to the Philippines, would he be found guilty or would he be exonerated?

For now, nobody knows. Until and unless the wheels of justice are allowed to turn no one will ever know the outcome. If it’s true that Soriano left the Philippines sometime in 2005 then he had been on the run for almost 4 years now.

WANTED: Soriano Eliseo

Of the 18 male fugitives of Philippine nationality on the Interpol Wanted list, only two are accused of sex crimes. Both of them are supposed to be preachers of God’s word. One is a catholic priest and the other is Eliseo Fernando Soriano. The priest is accused of raping a 14 year old girl, a member of his parish. Soriano is accused of raping a male subordinate. Any accused person should be considered innocent until proven guilty. The law requires the accused to face his accuser in a court of law and there prove his accuser wrong.

The rape accusation is not the only legal problem facing Soriano should he decide to come back to the Philippines. There are also a few libel cases filed against him by the Iglesia ni Cristo and also by the Muslims. The one filed by the Muslims stemmed from  some unsavory remarks made by Eliseo Soriano against Muslims and their prophet. This was broadcasted in one of his daily talk shows where he regularly spew diatribe against regular people, politicians and other religious organizations. And get this, he does his daily sermons via CD-rom. So there is a chance that Muslims have a copy of this episode.

Muslims protest Soriano

Anyway, the lawsuit by the Muslims calls for PHP1 billion in damages. That’s a lot of money! And because he hasn’t been in the Philippines for quite a while I’m pretty sure his resources are on the lean side. You see, Soriano get his money from his members and his many businesses one of which is selling cooked food which he says he prepares himself. Without him, I guess no one will prepare and sell the food.

The Muslims claim in their lawsuit that Soriano “uttered malicious sweeping … imputation of crimes … against them(Muslims)” which they say “exposed them to dishonor, disgrace, shame…”. Soriano,  as is the case in all of his legal troubles, denies he did what he’s accused of. But do the Muslims have a case? Can they show proof that indeed Soriano maligned them and their prophet? Well, you be the judge. Here’s Eliseo Soriano and what he said about Muslims. I got his off of youtube and cut the other stuff to leave just the part where he calls Muslims killers and then proceeded to malign even their prophet.

Here’s the transcript translated in english:

Soriano: “That’s what Muslims do. I’m not saying this because I’m crazy and I have a death wish because they indeed kill.”

Soriano: “You encounter a Muslim, they’ll criticize the bible. They say the bible is wrong. I say, they’re crazy. I tell them ‘well if the bible is wrong then why are you using it to justify Mohammad’s prophecy?’ They say the one mention in Deuteronomy 1*:18-19 is Mohammad and then they turn and criticize the bible. They criticize the bible and then use it to justifies Mohammad’s prophecy then you’re crazy, even Mohammad is crazy”.

As you can see, Soriano does not have even an iota of respect for leaders of other religions and regularly maligns them. You probably seen and heard how he libels leaders of the Iglesia ni Cristo.

There you go. I think the Muslims have enough evidence. One billion pesos is a lot of money. Soriano will be very hard pressed to produce this amount. As usual, Eliseo Soriano swears to high heaven saying the original of this tape was doctored and fabricated. He thought this would be enough. But then comes an expert in voice recognition who challenged him to submit to tests that would prove either the voice was from someone else, or is it really Soriano’s. Typical of Soriano, he maligns the expert and questioned his intention. Anyone who is not guilty will welcome the chance to prove his accusers  wrong. Not Eli.

Big mouth

It’s looking really grim for Soriano. I personally don’t think he’ll ever go back to the Philippines. Like what I’ve said in a previous blog, Soriano’s end is here and now. The instrument he used to become popular, his big mouth, is the same instrument that brought him crashing down. Goodbye Eli, and good night.

This week, the Church of Christ will celebrate the 40th year of its March 17, 1969, registration as a religious entity on Guam.

The church’s presence on Guam for four decades reflects how the face of the local community has evolved, according to some of its members.

“Our membership comes from all walks of life,” said Frank G. Santos, head deacon of the Church of Christ in Harmon. He joined the church in the 1960s and regards himself the first Chamorro to have joined the church.

Santos said he decided to join the church after realizing that its teachings are all based strictly on teachings from the Holy Bible.

“We do not do anything here in this church that is contrary to the teachings and the doctrines of the Holy Bible,” said Santos, a harbor master at the Guam commercial port. He’s been harbor master for about 33 years after having retired from the U.S. Navy.

Source: guampdn.com

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iglesia ni cristo worship service

Ask the fugitive

Eli Soriano, the fugitive televangelist wanted by the Interpol fashions himself as a great biblical resource. He even allows himself to be called “Pantas” or wise man. Lofty, isn’t it? He sports many monikers such as “the most sensible preacher of our times”, “phenomenal preacher”, “Walking bible”, “Modern Jeremiah”, “the appointed one”, “he who holds the key”, and others. He even stole my handle, truthcaster.  Other terms he uses to describe himself are “tech savvy” and “human encyclopedia”.

Ask the fugitive

But is he really all that? I looked into a few of his pronouncements and found a lot of weird stuff. Let’s together see if this man they call “wise man” make sense at all. Let’s take a look at just three things for now.

1. Sepoys of Cainta, Rizal:

In one episode of his Philippine talk show, he was asked why some people in Cainta, Rizal, Philippines where considerably darker than others.

Not even pausing to ponder the question, he said the reason was that the sun beats extra hot in Cainta, Rizal. Yup, that’s what he said. He said this bit with full authority as if he knew what he was talking about.  He made it sound that, as a matter of fact, the sun is just hotter in Cainta, Rizal. He didn’t explain why this is so. There maybe a few reasons why the sun would beat extra harder or hotter in a certain spot, but would this make someone darker permanently? I can see some people may get a tan but to permanently change the color of the skin, and then pass this on to their children sounds a little over-reaching.

The Iglesia ni Cristo religious program Ang Tamang Daan, obviously and rightfully, not wanting this bad information to be taken as fact immediately responded with a correction and a lesson to impart an important historical detail. The reason why some people of Cainta, Rizal of considerably darker is because they are descendants of Sepoys who elected to remain in the Philippines. The Sepoys where Indians who served in the British army.

Way to go “wise man”. One strike for you.

Ask the fugitive

2. Roman 13:13

Again in an episode of his talkshow, supposedly televangelizing. A listener ask him to explain Roman 13:13. The conversation was in Tagalog and the verse as written in tagalog goes like this: “Magsilakad tayong mahinhin, gaya ng sa araw;”.This is the  verse in English: “Let us behave properly as in the day“. And

In tagalog “araw” can mean the “sun“, or “day“. Guess which one “Mr Walking Bible” picked as the meaning of “araw” for this particular verse? The wrong one of course. The way he explained it made it even more hilarious. He said, the verse instruct people to walk gracefully, just as the sun glides gracefully across the sky from morning to night. If he had only truly understood the verse, or at least read the verse in English he could have saved him a lot of embarrassment.

Way to go “Walking bible”. two strikes.

Disqualified Soriano campaigning

3. In another episode, Soriano tells his members they can run for public office. Then he Soriano said :”But I will not join politics. I will not run as a candidate (for office). Why? Imagine, a preacher running for public office? Can one serve two lords? Christ didn’t allow that.”

Then he turns and run anyway and was disqualified as a nuisance candidate. He should add this to his monikers, “nuisanse”.

Thumbs down

3 strikes. You’re out! and out you should go.

There you go. Just two of the many “wisdom” from the “phenomenal preacher”. Doesn’t he give new meaning to the phrase ‘false preachers’?

Adapted from an episode of the Iglesia ni Cristo television program “Ang Tamang Daan”.

Eli Soriano babysitting

It’s been quiet for a few days now. Those friends of mine Eli Soriano fanatics who’ve been writing nasty editorials and passing them as news. The likes of Abao and Garcia and their fellow fanatic cult followers. But I still have a slight problem. They haven’t taken down those post and blog entries. And a few others, like Joseph Herdon started taking their place and writing on their blogs. I really want this to stop that’s why I’ve been holding off publishing a few articles.

You see, the fugitive accused rapist same-sex sodomizer Eli Soriano built his career by libeling and maligning innocent people. His modus operandi is to rouse mob mentality and ignore reason and then follow it up with his racketeering to raise money to support his dirty deeds. Well, that’s all about to stop because he himself has taken away his primary stage, which is the podium. He allegedly committed rape, now he’s wanted by the law. He can’t fight this in court because he knows he’ll lose and that would bring the immediate demise of his career. So he opted to be a fugitive, and be a simple blogger where at least he can still write and milk money from the few gullible followers he still has. But his end is almost certain. He can’t do this for a long time. The long arms of the law will catch up with him.

Eli Soriano comtemplating his predicament

His sidekick Daniel Razon knows where Soriano  is, as well as all of the MICs and of course Jane Abao and her troop of writers/libelers. I also have pictures of some of his followers dated sometime in 2007 with their fugitive leader. If they continue to help him hide and not tell the police where he is, this makes them guilty of harboring a known fugitive. Truly a cult full of criminals.

I hope they stop libeling and maligning so I too can stop and concentrate on what I really wanted to do. All I wanted from the start to for them to stop their libel and remove all libelous post. If they don’t, we keep going. See you losers at the finish line. Eat my dust suckas.

International Arrest Warrant out for Eli Soriano

Source: http://article.wn.com/view/2008/08/16/Intl_arrest_warrant_out_for_Eli_Soriano/

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Soriano fled the Philippines and has not been heard since. He is now considered an international fugitive and earned him an International Arrest Warrant from the Interpol.

In June 2008, news came out that he posted bail and reportedly surrendered to local police officers. But it was all a trick. For what purpose, no one knows. One things is sure. Eliseo Soriano has no qualms breaking the law. With the help of a corrupt police officer and a fat bank account from his followers’ contributions, he falsified public documents to make it look he surrendered.

Ely Soriano charged with falsification of public document

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080829-157610/Ely-Soriano-charged-with-falsification-of-public-document

The head of Ang Dating Daan evangelist group Eliseo “Ely” Soriano and two others were charged with falsification of public document at the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office for allegedly faking the certificate of detention in order to post bail for his rape charges.

The Church of God International supreme head, who was indicted for the rape of his male follower at the regional trial court of Macabebe, Pampanga, was sued for violation of Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code, along with a Pandacan police officer and a bondswoman.

Investigation showed that Soriano never surrendered nor was he arrested or detained at the Pandacan station on June 21, but a certificate of detention was still issued on his behalf by Pandacan Police Officer 3 June Gumaru, said Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Manila chief Superintendent Joaquin Alva. Alva said Gumaru and bondswoman Belen Talentado conspired to falsify the certificate of detention—a document required in Soriano’s posting of P240,000 bail. Gumaru, who told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a previous interview that Soriano had “surrendered” to him to avoid being apprehended, later admitted in a sworn affidavit that he had never seen the church group leader.

In the same statement, the policeman also confessed that he went to the sala of Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr. of RTC Branch 26 to get the release order for Soriano. “Gumaru even received the release order of Soriano to make it appear that Soriano was indeed in his custody … Clearly, Soriano was not arrested nor placed in the custody of Gumaru and thus not entitled to post bail,” said Alva in his report, stressing that an accused cannot post bail without surrendering or being arrested by law enforcers. He added that Gumaru was no longer authorized to sign a certificate of detention since he was no longer the jailer and was already assigned to a different Pandacan station.

Administrative charges have already been filed against the policeman in connection with the case, Alva said. Talentado, meanwhile, claimed in a sworn statement that she was approached by a supposed secretary of Ang Dating who asked for assistance in the filing of cash bond for Soriano. She said she brought the documents to the Manila RTC and facilitated the posting of Soriano’s bail with the secretary’s help. Though the church group head did not appear to be directly involved, Alva said Soriano was included in the complaint because he was the “beneficiary” of such a procedure. “There should have been no problem because the case is bailable, but Soriano probably did not want to go through the process,” he said. Alva said they will study the possibility of asking the court to cancel Soriano’s bail since it was not done correctly.

Court records showed that on May 17, 2000, Soriano allegedly “took advantage of his moral ascendancy and/or influence” to direct his former assistant secretary general to come into his room, massage him and have anal intercourse. It added that the sexual acts were done “against the will and consent, and to the damage and prejudice” of the complainant. In November 2006, a warrant for Soriano’s arrest was issued by Judge Lucina Dayaon of the Macabebe RTC Branch 54. Soriano’s whereabouts are still unknown, said Alva.

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I'm with Stupid

In our world today, people associate things with what it looks like. As seen in the movie “Forrest Gump”, people ask Forrest is he’s stupid because to them, he looked “stupid”. It’s not defined in the movie what “stupid” looks like but we all know what the “look” is and why we associate it with stupid. But here’s the classic response of Forrest and it teaches a valuable lesson that we all must learn and benefit from. His reply was “stupid is as stupid does”. What does this phrase mean? It just means that stupidity is not what a person looks like, but for what he does. If a person does stupid things, then that person is indeed stupid. Whether he looks smart, sounds smart, pretends to be smart, calls himself pantas, whatever. If he does stupid things, he’s stupid.

Phillip Garcia

Such is the case of Phillip Garcia whom I’ve written about. In that blog, I’ve pointed out the errors of his ways, explaining to him what constitute libel and the consequences of being found guilty of libel. I’ve quoted the definition of libel hoping he’d understand and realize his mistake, correct himself and move on. Normal people would always steers out of danger when they realize that there is indeed danger looming. But Phillip Garcia is not normal. Much like his idol Eliseo Fernando Soriano, the fugitive televangelist, they carry on with their wrongdoing oblivious of the damage to themselves and the victims of their baseless accusations.

In his latest blog entry, Garcia rehashed the same libelous blog post he posted on newsvine. This time he added scan of what he says are “proofs” of his allegations. Except that he posted are the same reports of INC members allegedly committing crimes. Let me repeat, these are reports of “INC members” allegedly committing crimes. First off, read well Garcia, when citing a newspaper (in Phillip Garcia’s case, that would be tabloids) as sources, one needs to provide the name of the author, the title of the piece, the publication name, the publisher, where the article was published and when it was published. Scans are not enough because for all intents these cans could have been doctored. Next, be absolutely sure you understand what you are doing. Granting that these scans are reliable, one could readily see, the cases are against member of the INC, not the INC itself or its leaders. Therefore, it is libel for Garcia to accuse the INC and its leaders of any crime for as long as these are the sources presented.

Another example, it is not libel for me to say that Eliseo Fernando Soriano is a fugitive is I cite the Interpol Wanted Poster of Soriano. The site is verifiable and from a reliable source and the information can be easily verified as true.

Classic examples worthy of note is the exchanges between Soriano and Ang Tamang Daan host. Soriano calls the INC killers, he get sued for libel because he cannot prove the INC killed anyone. INC ministers calls Soriano an extortionist, Soriano does not sue. Why, because the host have proof that Soriano did indeed extort money from his followers.

Finally, Garcia presented scans of a tabloid called “The Bombshell” which was published in the 1950’s. This tabloid was published by an anonymous writer with an ax to grind against the INC. I know, I have the book.

Prison

So in parting, I again give an advice to both Eliseo Soriano and his shill Phillip Garcia. You disrespected the INC for a long time and they showed patience. Finally, after so many years of lying, where are you now? A fugitive, without a life, a name or a country. Don’t let this shill of yours Phillip Garcia suffer the same fate. You know what to tell him.

To Phillip Garcia, stupid is as stupid does. Don’t be stupid. Don’t do stupid things. Or you might end up in prison.

(Part of a series)

Part II: A false prophet is born

Eli Soriano

Eli was sickly, there was something wrong with his heart and this was complicated by bouts of asthma. But Eli has a more troubling disease that would hound him later in his life. The disease was his overwhelming need to borrow money. The late 60’s was the year where he found himself owing about P10, 000.00 from different people. He needed his brother’s help to bail him out of his trouble. To support his growing need for money, while still a minister of his church he turned to cooking food to sell. His first turo-turo was in Sampaloc, Manila. He would go to the market and gather rotting vegetables which market vendors threw away as garbage, and used this to make lumpia which he would then sell for human consumption. He boasted that this was a great idea because he had a his profit margins were high. Aside from his lumpia, he also started selling other things, including women’s bras and panties. On top of this, he also tended to raising chickens and pigs in their own back yard.

By 1970 Soriano had established 20 local congregations in Pampanga. He was entrusted by Perez to write lesson because he had good memory and could recall certain verses in the bible. However, he still did not have the authority to baptize members, nor to hold key positions in the organization. Hizon was still the only person who could baptize, debate or otherwise perform key functions aside from Perez himself. When Hizon left the group, Perez appointed Rodolfo Dela Cruz to take Hizon’s place and duties. After Perez’s death, Levita Gugulan was appointed as the leader of the group, Soriano being one of the signatories of the appointment. By this time, Soriano still did not hold any significant position, not even a ministerial position, in the organization and was always relegated to writing lessons even later on in the time of Levita Gugulan. Later, Gugulan would expel Soriano from this organization, which some reports claim was because of homosexuality.

Now without a church, Soriano remained under the radar until 1977 when he registered a new group called Iglesia ng Dios kay Kristo Hesus, Haligi at Saligan ng Katotohanad. This did not escape the notice of Levita Gugulan because, except for the word Saligan, the names were identical. Gugulan’s church filed a lawsuit against Soriano. In 1980, while the suit was still the the courts and in a preemptive move, Soriano registered another group and called it Iglesia ng Dios ka Kristo Hesus, Haligi at Saligan ng Katotohanan sa Bansang Pilipinas, Incorporated.

In 1988, Soriano lost the suit and was ordered to change his organization names to something dissimilar to Gugulan’s group. This would be the first of many instances where Soriano tries to circumvent or violate the law.

In 1993, Gugulan’s successor, Maximo Nieto fount out about the name Soriano registered in 1980, an obvious violation of the court ruling in 1988. Soriano, againt in a preemptive move, registered another name, Bayan ng Katotohanan Incorporated. He was not done. In 1994 while the case filed by Nieto was in progress, Soriano againt registered another name, Iglesia ni YHWH at ni YHWSA HMSYH, Inc.

In 1995, Soriano lost to Nieto and was again ordered to change their name. He lost hsis appeal and had no choice but to use Bayan ng Katotohanan Incorporated and but was not content with the name. He later used , Iglesia ni YHWH at ni YHWSA HMSYH, Inc.

Despite being ordered twice not to use the name of Perez’s group, Soriano still maintains he is the successor to Perez and his was Perez’s original church.

(To be continued…)

O Brother Where Art Thou?

The Life and Times of Eli Soriano

(Part of a series)

Part I: Biography

Eli Soriano

Eliseo Fernando Soriano, Brod Eli to his supporters, was born on April 4, 1947 to parents Triumpo Soriano and Catalina Fernando in Pasay, Rizal. He came from a poor family. He was the seventh of the eight siblings namely Corazon, Remigio, Emiliano, Roberto, Valentin, Narciso and Elizabeth, the youngest. His father was a student of the Philippine Military Academy, hoping to be an officer someday but a few months before graduation got married and did not graduate. When he was born both of his parents where members of the Iglesia ng Dios kay Kristo Hesus, Haligi at Suhay ng Katotohanan where his father was then the General Secretary and Treasurer. This religion was headed by Nicolas Perez. Life was hard for Eli and his family, so much so that his father had to do manual work to get by. To lessen the burden of day to day living, Eli was sent to live with his Auntie Toyang and this is where he grew up. His Auntie was a devout Catholic and taught Eli catholic doctrines including praying to idols and reciting “Ama Namin”. From all indications, Eli grew up without a father figure to guide him. Instead he grew up mainly in the company of women.

Life was hard when Eli and his siblings were young. There were times when they had nothing to eat specially when his parent did not work. At some point his mother was forced to use church funds which resulted in his mother being suspended for 7 years and his father being removed from his position as General Secretary and Treasurer.

Little Eli was timid as a boy. When he was 7 years old, he started elementary school but did not finish because he was overly shy and hides from people so they would not see him. He would do anything to avoid going to school, he even rolled in mud. In 1955, he repeated first grade. He would later claim that he’s first in his class and was valedictorian of the school but he repeated grade six in 1961.He finally started high school and was enrolled at Ramon Magsaysay in Espana, Manila but this too proved hard for him and again did not finish.

Time came which would prove to be a turning point in his life when his father told him to come to a worship service at his father’s church. He initially did not want to go but his father threatened to throw him out of a window which scared him enough to go. He went to Pasay with his father where he heard Nicolas Perez preached. He became interested in the Bible and began reading it. After a short time, he was baptized into his father’s church in Bacoor, Cavite by Filomeno Hizon.

By this time, he wanted so much to be a minister in this new church. He befriended Hizon and through him he was introduced to Perez. He tried his best to be close to Perez until finally he was sent to Bacoor, Cavite. This was his first assignment. He was later sent to Pasay and then to Pampanga. In Pampanga, he met and befriended Renato Dimalanta.

(To be continued…)