The series of recent protest movements seeking transparency and accountability from government officials, posts of hierarchy in public estates such as the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in cahoots with private sectors and contractors had involved interfairh and religious communities.
There was the essence of the mixed spiritual and material import which had confused the constitutional delineation of the separation between church and state but if the action is purely for moral ascendency and not partisan politics, the role of the church is clear and simple.
The first ever Trillion-Peso March at the EDSA People Power Monument was organized not only by civil society groups but religious congregations.
Then the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), Jesus is Lord and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) led a three-day prayer rally about clean government, transparency and accountability but was eventually reduced to just a two-day event.
During the commemoration of the 162nd birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, the 2nd Trillion-Peso March in EDSA, Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David called on the faithful and the general public to join the rally.
At the Bahain ang Luneta demonstrations led by various freedom loving groups, actress Carmi Martin was in the forefront of her religious sect.
At the Rizal Park, Carmi admitted in her speech that she is just a neophyte in protest rallies but she believes, she said, that transparency and accountability in governance are imprtant values for a righteous leadership.
In her Facebook wall, Martin proclaimed succinctly her spiritual beliefs through body movements together with her fellow churchmates in Rebuild Church in Makati City.
"Prayer walk for our Nation," described the actess.
She even quoted a biblical passage to reflect in her human actions.
“'As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws',” Carmi echoed from 1 Kings 9:4 NIV.
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