[SUNSTAR.PH] A CATHOLIC priest called the recent attack of the Maute terrorist rebels against the church in Marawi City group as "desecration" to the Catholic faith after they destroyed the religious statues and torched down the church amid the crisis.Former Davao Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Capalla, in Friday's Hermes Club press forum at Waterfront Insular Hotel, slammed the terrorist group who pledged alliance with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) in their recent attack on the Catholic Church in Maraw City.
"It was a desecration. According to Marawi Bishop Edwin del Pe¤a, it is demonic, only devil can do that to give brutal disrespect to something that we consider holy," Capalla said, pertaining to the video that circulated in social media showing how the notorious rebel group smashed the sacred images of the church and setting St. Mary's Cathedral in Marawi City on fire.