Articles on this issue "murder"
In 2009, both North and South America reported a total of 12 murders of Catholic missionaries, the Vatican's Fides agency stated. The list of missionaries killed on active duty last year was …
read moreItalian Father Ruggero Ruvoletto was murdered Saturday morning in his parish of St. Evelina on the outskirts of Manaus, in northeastern Brazil. After the initial reconstructions, the police …
read moreThe murderer of Jesuit Father Victor Betancourt was sentenced on Tuesday, but the killing of the victim's confrere, Father Otto Messner, remains unpunished. In a communiqué, the Society of …
read moreFather James Mukalel, 39, was found dead on the side of the road Thursday in a region that suffered a wave of anti-Christian attacks last year. The Syro-Malabar Diocese of Belthangady in …
read moreThe last words of Father Mariano Arroyo Merino expressed his forgiveness for the would-be robbers who knifed and burned him. The Spanish priest, 74, was murdered July 13 at his parish of Our …
read moreThe Caritas aid agency reported that a staff member from their French division was killed in Congo last week, and called for an end to the "growing climate of insecurity" in the African …
read moreFather Mariano Arroyo Merino, 74, was found dead Monday at the parish of Our Lady of Regla, in Havana. Initial investigations indicate that the priest was murdered in a knife attack early …
read moreStigmatine Missionary Father Gisley Azevedo Gomes died a victim of the violence he was dedicated to fighting, according to the national youth ministry program in which he worked. The …
read moreThe Colombian bishops' conference is expressing sorrow for two Redemptorist priests who were murdered Monday night. Father Gabriel Fernando Montoya Tamayo, 40, and Father Jesús Ariel Jiménez, …
read moreThe list of missionaries killed on active duty in 2008 includes an archbishop, several priests, religious and laypeople, reported the Vatican's Fides agency. This list, compiled by the …
read morePolice are still investigating the violent deaths of two Jesuit priests, killed Saturday and Monday in Moscow. According to the Jesuit Press and Information Office, Father Victor Betancourt, …
read moreA 37-year-old Carmelite priest was tortured and killed on Saturday night as he traveled to the site where he was to celebrate Sunday Mass. The body of Carmelite of Mary Immaculate Father …
read moreA Salesian priest from India was killed Monday in Nepal when armed men broke into his residence and detonated an explosive device. Father John Prakash, 62, directed a school in Sirsiya in the …
read moreOblate of Mary Immaculate Father Reynaldo Roda was shot and killed Tuesday in what appears to be an attempted kidnapping. The 54-year-old priest spent the last 10 years as a missionary in the …
read moreThe Church in Iraq is disappearing, said the celebrant at a funeral Mass for slain Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni who was killed on Sunday in Mosul. A Mass for the soul of the priest was held at …
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