By MARK LORENZANA Jesuit university rectors in Mexico warned on Thursday, June 23, that the country is experiencing a failed state and a security crisis, and called on citizens to pressure the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to put an end to the violence. During the annual meeting of the Jesuit University System (SUJ) — a network
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By MARK LORENZANA Pope Francis on Wednesday, June 22, condemned the murders of two Jesuit priests in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, who were gunned down on Monday, June 20, along with a local tour guide inside a church in the municipality of Urique. “So many killings in Mexico,” Francis said at the end of his general audience, attended
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By MARK LORENZANA Two Jesuit priests were shot dead by armed individuals on Monday, June 20, inside a church in the municipality of Urique in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were allegedly taken by the gunmen. A man pursued by the gunmen had purportedly sought refuge in the church, and the two priests — Javier Campos Morales
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