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Mexican bishop says criminal groups ‘seeking an exit,’ urges dialogue
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Aug 23, 2019
A bishop in Mexico’s heroin-producing heartland is urging the federal government to hold talks with armed groups — including drug cartels — saying many in the illegal drug business are unable to make ends meet and are “seeking an exit.”
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Colombian bishop hopes holy water will curb city’s crime
- Associated Press, Church in the Americas
- Jul 13, 2019
A Catholic bishop in Colombia hopes holy water will curb violence in a city struggling with crime and corruption.
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Catechist instructor shot dead in southern Mexico
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Jun 18, 2019
A catechist instructor was shot dead at a chapel in Chiapas state — another example of how the violence consuming Mexico is impacting the Catholic Church.
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Mexican Catholic leaders decry insecurity, plead for peace after murders
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Jun 15, 2019
The Mexican bishops’ conference issued a plea for peace and Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes asked priests to celebrate Masses “for all the victims of violence in the country” after a pair of kidnappings and killings in the national capital provoked outrage and worsened perceptions of insecurity.
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Irish archbishop wants ‘show funerals’ for gang members to end
- Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland
- Jun 3, 2019
In the midst of a bitter gangland feud in the Irish capital, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has moved to ensure that funerals of those killed are not used as overt shows of wealth or perceived influence.
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El Salvador lays to rest another priest presumably assassinated by gangs
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- May 21, 2019
Thousands attended the May 20 funeral of a Salvadoran priest found by his parishioners in what some presume is a gang killing.
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