A Spanish Jesuit priest working among Indigenous people in Peru has been murdered.
Vatican News reports that the body of Fr Carlos Riudavets Montes was found last Friday morning with several stab wounds and his hands bound in the school he ran. Reports said the fact nothing seemed to be stolen seemed to rule out burglary as a motive.
The Peruvian Catholic bishops conference has urged authorities to clarify the facts of the case and investigate the killing.
Fr Riudavets, 73, had served in the north central part of the Peruvian Amazon for 38 years and while born in Spain, had come to Peru as a young man to study theology before, after his ordination, he was sent to serve at a Jesuit mission.
He had subsequently worked for almost 40 years among the Indigenous people as a teacher and then as the principal of the school which provided education for children of the Yamakai-Entsa people.
