Jesuits: 2 Priests Killed in Northern Mexico Near Texas Border
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The Jesuit religious order in Mexico says two of its priests have been killed inside a church in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico.
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Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch announced Tuesday.
2 Jesuit priest were killed at a church in Mexico on Monday. A man being followed by a gunman sought refuge and the gunman came into the church and killed the two priests instead.
Pope Francis expressed his shock over the killings of two Jesuit priests and a lay person in Mexico along with condemning the ongoing violence in the country.
Pope Francis mourned the deaths of two priests and a sanctuary seeker whose bodies were taken away by armed men after they were gunned down inside a church.
A man seeking sanctuary at their church was also killed. The two priests belonged to a religious order well-known for negotiating gang disputes in Chihuahua — a region wracked by organized crime.
MEXICO CITY -- Two elderly Jesuit priests were killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order's Mexican branch announced Tuesday.
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