The bishops’ statement followed the slayings of two Jesuits and a person they were protecting in their parish — a crime attributed to a local crime boss in a part of the country dominated by drug cartels, rife with poverty and long neglected by the state.
After Jesuit murders, Mexican bishops urge president to revise strategy
Texas bishops call execution of death-row inmate an ‘act of vengeance’
In a statement released just after Buntion’s death, the bishops said that Buntion, one of the oldest death-row inmates with multiple chronic health condition and was of no threat to anyone.
El Salvador charges former president in 1989 murders of Jesuits, two women
Former President Alfredo Cristiani and 12 others — mostly former soldiers — were charged with involvement in the slayings of the six Jesuits, their housekeeper and the housekeeper’s teenage daughter at their residence on the campus of the Jesuit-run José Simeón Cañas Central American University in San Salvador.
Honduran Jesuit: Cáceres conviction breaks ‘tradition of impunity’
A court in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa ruled that Roberto David Castillo, a former executive with Desarrollos Energéticos, was a co-collaborator in the the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres, environmental leader and Indigenous rights advocate.
Pope prays for victims, condemns violence in Mexican border city
Pope Francis prayed for the victims of violence in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, where seemingly random attacks on innocent individuals claimed 19 lives.
At Mexican camp near U.S. border, asylum-seekers grow more desperate
Fear gripped asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico have endured months of hardships.
Ex-Salvadoran officer: ‘High command’ gave order to kill Jesuits in ’89
A former Salvadoran army officer has testified that the “high command” gave orders to eliminate Jesuits priests during the country’s civil war.
Murder of Jesuits was marked with horror, but inspired defense of the poor
No one can deny that the act was horrific. Six priests found face down on a lawn with bullet holes through various parts of their bodies.