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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Y. Mara Teresa Hernndez

Peace must be a priority, say Catholic leaders on anniversary of priests' violent deaths in Mexico

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Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests.

Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the Revs. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and Joaquín César Mora Salazar, 80, were murdered by a local gang leader — has not faded. Nor their quest for peace.

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