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Less Traveled RoadAt the barest core lies truth---------------------------------------------------------
 Ang Dating Daan boycotts giant TVnetwork GMA,Bro. Eli decries harassment
Jane Abao
 For lack of equity and bias
Manila, Philippines (6/23/09) – The congregation of the Members Church of God, International(MCGI), more popularly known as Ang Dating Daan (ADD) have declared a formal boycott onGMA, a giant television network in the country for its biased and uncalled-for airing of a caseagainst its Presiding Minister filed by one he had excommunicated in 2005.GMA7, through
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anchored by Arnold Clavio, on the night of June 18, 2009,tackled the double rape case filed against Bro. Eliseo Soriano by Daniel Veridiano alias Puto.The preacher had excommunicated the complainant from MCGI way back in 2005 for rapingsome 14 of his subordinates, and misappropriating church funds for personal use. Failing to beforgiven and received back into the folds of MCGI, Veridiano joined the Iglesia ni Cristo, whereSoriano is its most severe critic.Before some 70,000 members gathered in a week-end thanksgiving in Apalit, Pampanga, andseveral thousands more in 6 continents, the preacher explained on June 23, 2009 over satellitethat he cannot issue any statement to a current case, otherwise risk himself to the sub judice rule.Sub judice, in legal parlance means “under judicial deliberation” or “awaiting judicialdetermination,” or in simple terms, “not yet decided.”“There was no sense of justice and equity in the
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of Arnold Clavio over GMA7. Inthe first place, the invented rape case against me is still in the courts,” the subject of ArnoldClavio’s program said.In last Thursday’s episode of 
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, Veridiano played resource person, and without batting an eyelash, repeated what he had been saying ever since: that on two occasions in 2000and 2001, the preacher raped him. As recorded in the court case, these incidents had been denied by Bro. Soriano and with evidences presented in the court, the case was dismissed on January 26,
 
2006 as penned by Alexandro Lopez, Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Region III, SanFernando, Pampanga and as approved by Jesus Y. Manarang, the Provincial Prosecutor.But months later, however, Raul Gonzalez, Secretary of Justice, on March 21, 2006, directedRegional State Prosecutor Jesus Simbulan to elevate the records of the rape case to his office, theDepartment of Justice. The Ang Dating Daan considers this as highly irregular and for aSecretary of Justice to be doing this, DOJ appears to have become personal and justice ownedand franchised by some selected citizens.“There was an email to me why we do not answer the broadcast of GMA. There is a principle of sub judice. Under our laws, I cannot answer because I will be cited for contempt of court. Thatcase has just started.It should not be part of the program,
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,” Soriano said. “ If acase is already in the court, you cannot speak on the merits of it. That would be under the principle of sub judice. However, not talking about it does not mean that we are not respondingat all,” he added.For a self-confessed serial rapist, Veridiano was given credibility by Arnold Clavio. Veridianoalso was the star of the momentwhen the preacher’s bio was placed in the wanted list of theInternational Criminal Police Organization or Interpol as requested allegedly by a Macabebe,Pampanga court for “sex crimes” -the word “crimes” to make it to Interpol level.The international activities, however, of Soriano, is preaching the gospel now centered in theWest.Veridiano has become the accuser, and influential bodies like the courts of Pampanga, the DOJand recently, the GMA TV have become vehicles used against Soriano. To Soriano’s group,however, the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) is behind all these moves in a desperate attempt to destroythe credibility of the preacher.His challenge to Eraño Manalo to an open debate on TV as published in
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dated March 27, 2005 to “once and for all settle our doctrinaldifferences” remains un-responded to until today. What remains active from the Manalo camparefiling of casesagainst him, using excommunicated members of Ang Dating Daan.The INC practices bloc voting (“command votes”) where every member votes for their leader’schoice, a practice that has hooked Philippine politics ever since. No politician would daredisplease INC leadership for want of power. Soriano, however, as fearless preacher, does notconsider INC beliefs as godly and therefore exposes whatever he knows in every instance that heis asked. He has a program, “Ask Soriano,” where everyone can ask questions on matters of salvation and INC beliefs are most often touched.Bro. Soriano said that what Arnold Clavio tackled in his program is not considered tenable.What Clavio could have discussed are vintage cases like the bribery issue concerning former Justice Secretary Hernani Perez and the anomaly in the Expo Filipino, he said.Arnold Clavio used to co-anchor 
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of GMA7 with Daniel Razon, the Vice PresidingMinister of MCGI.Razon, who is now playing it great in UNTV as Executive, was asked by
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