Abducted retired Catholic bishop who mediated between cartels in Mexico is located, hospitalised
Mexico City AP A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Monsignor Salvador Rangel, a bishop […]
Mexican church officials have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels
Mexico City, Mexico AP Roman Catholic churchmen have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels whose turf wars have blooded the state of Guerrero in southern Mexico, a priest said last week. It is the latest in a series of attempts by bishops and priests to get cartels to talk to each other in hopes […]
Mexico high schoolers take up arms after village kidnappings
Acapulco, Mexico Reuters A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organised crime. Armed with rifles and sticks, and with their […]
Nearly 100 dead or missing in Mexico from hurricane, food and water worries persist
Acapulso, Mexico Reuters The number of people dead and missing due to Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week, has risen to nearly 100, authorities in the state of Guerrero said on Monday. Otis battered Acapulco with winds of 266 kph on Wednesday, flooding the […]
Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab
Mexico City, MexicoAP Under a white tent on the street outside Our Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday, Rev Adrián Vázquez led parishioners seated in pews and plastic chairs in celebrating 10 o’clock Mass, flanked by piles of rubble from the sanctuary left there by a deadly earthquake nearly five years ago. […]
Mexico’s ex top prosecutor arrested on disappearance charges in missing students case
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican former Attorney General Jesus Murillo has been arrested on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, Mexican officials said on Friday. The attorney general’s office said in a statement that federal police carried out an arrest warrant issued by a Mexico City […]
Bloody Mexican election campaign exposes chronic security woes
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Abel Murrieta was handing out campaign flyers on the street this month when a gunman shot him in broad daylight at point-blank range, making him the latest candidate murdered in one of the bloodiest election campaigns in Mexico’s recent history. Running for mayor in mid-term elections on 6th June, Murrieta died in […]
Christians call for investigation into murders of Mexican priests
BosNewsLife (with reporting by STEFAN J BOS) Mexican authorities are under increasing pressure to investigate the murders of two Roman Catholic priests after a prosecutor suggested that the clergy’s deaths could be linked to their association with organised crime. Priests Iván Añorve Jaimes and Germain Muñiz Garcia were killed and four others injured when armed men […]
Two priests murdered in Mexico as gang attacks against religious leaders continue
World Watch Monitor Two priests were shot dead while travelling on the Iguala-Taxco highway of Mexico’s notorious Guerrero state early on Monday. Fr Germain Muñiz Garcia and Fr Iván Añorve Jaimes, from a church in Veracruz state, were reported killed by the Catholic News Agency. Their attackers fled the scene. The Archdiocese of Acapulco, in […]