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by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Jesuits, Mexico, murdered priests, News | 0 |
MEXICO CITY — Two months after a pair of Jesuit priests were killed in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico, the suspected killer remains on the loose and townspeople are frightened, but the religious order says it is not leaving. The killings of Fathers Javier Campos and Joaquín Mora, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, murdered priests, News, U.S. Congress | 0 |
U.S. members of Congress have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to “work closely with the Mexican government to sure there is full accountability for the murders” of two Jesuits in their parish and a tour guide they were protecting.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 10, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Jesuits, murdered priests, News | 0 |
The Roman Catholic Church began a special round of prayers for peace in Mexico on Sunday after two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were slain June 20.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Gang violence, Mexico, Mexico bishops, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Mexico’s Catholic leaders are calling for a day of prayer as violence continues crippling the country and priests and bishops raise their voice on an issue that puts them in conflict with Mexico’s popular president.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, Mexico bishops, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Mexico’s Catholic bishops’ conference called Monday on parishes throughout the country to put photos of dead nuns and priests in their churches this Sunday and to hold Masses for all those killed in gang-fueled violence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2022 | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Jesuits, Mexico, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Two Jesuit priests and a tour guide murdered in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara this week are the latest in a long line of activists, reporters, travelers and local residents who have been threatened or killed by criminal gangs that dominate the region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, Mexico bishops, murdered priests, News | 0 |
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican bishops’ conference called on the country’s president to revise his security strategy as violence continues convulsing Mexico and claiming innocent lives, including clergy. The bishops’ statement followed the slayings of two Jesuits and a person they were protecting in their parish — a crime attributed […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, lead, Mexico, murdered priests, News | 0 |
The Catholic Multimedia Center in Mexico said seven priests have been murdered during the current administration, which took office in December 2018, and at least two dozen under the former president, who took office in 2012.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, General Audience, Mexico, murdered priests, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis on Wednesday blasted the violence that plagues Mexico as he mourned the slayings of two of his “brother” Jesuits who were gunned down in a remote Mexican church by apparent drug gang members.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, lead, Mexico, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Two Jesuit priests were murdered in a rugged region of Mexico rife with violence as they provided refuge to a person being pursued by a gunman, according to the Society of Jesus and state officials.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Jesuits, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Prosecutors in El Salvador have brought charges against a former president for the murders of six Jesuits in 1989, a crime carried out by soldiers during a brutal civil war in the Central American country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 27, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, martyrdom, murdered priests, News, saints and martyrs | 0 |
El Salvador has set a Jan. 22 date for the beatifications of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto and two laymen, the Salvadoran bishops’ conference announced Aug. 27.
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