MANILA, Philippines — Church groups question the P8-billion proposed budget allocation for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac). While the NTF-Elcac is a task force created by the Duterte administration to purge leftist insurgency, it has also been repeatedly accused of red tagging. In a pastoral letter issued on Tuesday night, Caritas Philippines and the Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace (Ecsa-JP) said the fresh budget being proposed for the NTF-Elcac in 2026 requires “serious moral scrutiny” for being another “instrument of patronage.” “Precisely because we seek genuine and lasting peace, we raise […]... Keep on reading: Catholic groups question NTF-Elcac P8-B budget allocation