The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) urgently requests us to be in solidarity with the 43 Filipino health workers who were arrested and detained on Friday, February 6, 2010. Among the detained include Dr Alexis Montes, who has been a health worker with the UCCP since 1988.
Initial reports say that more than 300 military and police raided the health workers’ retreat centre at gunpoint, and arrested them immediately. It is suspected that the detainees are being held Camp Capinpin, Samaploc, Tanay, Rizal, but access has been denied to lawyers, family, colleagues and pastors who have tried to visit them.
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