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Posted on 06/15/2009 6:41:16 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Gunmen ordered a priest and two seminarians out of their vehicle and shot them dead in a drug-plagued region of western Mexico, authorities said Monday.
The three were killed as they drove through the town of Arcelia in Guerrero state to nearby Ciudad Altamirano to organize a spiritual retreat, said the Archbishop of Acapulco, Felipe Aguirre Franco.
Erit Montufar, Guerrero's director of investigative police, said no arrests have been made and no motive has been determined for the killings, which took place Saturday.
But Roman Catholic clergy in Mexico have complained that they are increasingly the targets of attacks and extortion demands as the nation wrestles with a wave of drug cartel-fueled violence.
"We have become hostages in this violent confrontations between the drug cartels living among us," Aguirre Franco said.
In April, priests in northern Mexico were urged to take extra precautions after an archbishop commented on where the nation's most-wanted trafficker may live.
The coastal state of Guerrero, which is used by drug traffickers to grow marijuana and opium poppies, has been mired in drug violence for years.
Also Monday, Mexico's attorney general's office said it charged 51 guards and prison officials, including the director, for their complicity in the escape of 53 inmates from a jail in Zacatecas state.
Security camera footage showed that guards at the Cieneguillas prison stood by as an armed gang walked out with the 53 inmates on May 16. About a dozen of the fugitives are drug cartel suspects.
The office also said it has arrested 9 mid-level military officers and turned over to them by the army for passing information to the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Satan strikes again!
How horrible...the Mafia never killed a priest, just each other.Also not women and children like these animals do.
Oh Lord.
They are big on killing priests in Mexico, tho. It’s a long-standing tradition. They killed MANY in the 1920’s. We have a lot of Catholic convents/ cloisters/ churches here in So Cal that started when refuge priests and nuns came north.
Viva Cristo Rey! was their battlecry. “He is not here” the govt posted in churches that were closed overnight. It was just terrible. We heard a talk on it.
They are big on killing priests in Mexico, tho. It’s a long-standing tradition. They killed MANY in the 1920’s. We have a lot of Catholic convents/ cloisters/ churches here in So Cal that started when refuge priests and nuns came north.
Viva Cristo Rey! was their battlecry. “He is not here” the govt posted in churches that were closed overnight. It was just terrible. We heard a talk on it.
The trumpets are sounding on the other side.
RIP.
If its all the same...I’d rather kill the banditos.
Let them meet whats waiting on ‘the other side.’
Killing a priest is really not a good idea.
Just like you never sail with a priest on board.
Actually after the Revolution (that wasn’t) it became open season on Priests and Nuns. Anyone caught in public wearing clericals (?) were at the very least, subject to arrest.
The Church was suppressed by the government, which is why some of the bizarre “Catholic” religions emerged later.
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We have been told over and over and over that Mexicans are very religious, are good Catholics, and they have good 'family values'. So they could never ever ever Kill a Priest.
So this story is obviously a lie. The Killers were prolly drug addicted Mennonites. Or maybe Swedish Lutherans.
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The Catholic Church has recognized several of those killed in the Cristero rebellion as martyrs. Perhaps the best-known is Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ. This Jesuit priest was executed by firing squad on November 23, 1927, without benefit of a trial, on the grounds that his priestly activities were in defiance of the government. The Calles government hoped to use images of the execution to scare the rebels into surrender, but the photos had the opposite effect. Upon seeing the photos, which the government had printed in all the newspapers, the Cristeros were inspired with a desire to follow Father Pro into martyrdom for Christ. His beatification occurred in 1988.
From: The Cristeros/ Wikipedia
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