MANILA, Philippines — Transparency, accountability, and peace. These were the three major appeals made by the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) as more than half a million of its members gathered at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila on Sunday, marking the start of the three-day “Rally for Transparency and a Better Democracy.”
Alongside that broad appeal against the corruption hounding the government, a lawmaker and prominent member of the sect took this occasion to reiterate his defense of some witnesses in this still-unraveling controversy and his criticism of the government’s investigation into allegedly anomalous flood control projects exposed by the scandal.
