Filipino migrant workers based in the Middle East will hold an interfaith prayer for those killed in Monday’s massacre in Maguindanao.

“It is really a sad moment for our fellow OFW-Muslim brothers and sisters that during Eid Al-adha this horrible crime happened,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator.

Monterona said the interfaith prayer will be held on November 27, 2009 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Migrante chapters in the Middle East denounced the incident that killed 47 members of a political clan, their supporters and lawyers, and journalists.

They joined the mounting calls to pressure the Philippine government to immediately act and resolve the incident.

Binang Jiliano, welfare case officer of the Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangang (KGS), an affiliate of Migrante in Riyadh, condemned the massacre and urged the Arroyo government to provide swift justice to all the victims.

“Muslim brotherhood, faith and unity should not be destroyed by one’s thirst for power and political ambitions,” Jiliano said.