Attacks against priests in Mexico have risen to an unbearable level. Organized criminals have turned to hunting down and maiming parish clergy to rise up the ranks of drug cartels and shut out the pastoral work they do in their communities.
At least 70 priests have been killed — officially recognized — in recent decades, which makes Mexico the most dangerous country in the world to be a priest. The Centro Católico Multimedial keeps track of murdered priests (diocesan and religious) from 1990 to this year.
In addition to murders, desecrations of temples have also increased. Satanism has grown exponentially within the drug gangs, which adds even more savagery, if possible, to their criminal acts.
Fr. Omar Otero describes the situation to Publimetro :
«They desecrate the temples and the sacred hosts, they have violated bishops, cardinals, clerics and even altar boys. No one is safe from violence. If they were stabbed five times before, now they do it 20 times and with narco-satanic messages. In some cases they have even thrown the bodies of the parents in the curve of the devil»
The assassins of various drug cartels mutilate, cut throats, torture and cut off entire parts, such as the fingers of the priests who use them to trace a cross and bless their parishioners. This is a message against those who maintain strong activism in their communities.
We know what can happen to us
Mons Herculano Medina, auxiliary bishop of Morelia, indicates that in addition to the priests whose death has been officially registered, there are others who have disappeared, others who are threatened, and indicates that this “is part of what we, by assuming this lifestyle, know that it may happen sooner or later.”
The above comes from an Oct. 4 posting on InfoCatolica (English and Spanish).
Thank you for reporting on this. We need to bring more attention to all of the priests, religious, lay leaders, and secular reporters who are murdered by cartels, in Mexico particularly, and by militias in other parts of the world every year. Reporting on and supporting the work they were doing in their parish, or their mission, and who these cartels and militias are, and how their economic enterprises can be diminished by bringing attention to what they are doing. With the drug cartels, how do their drug operations and human trafficking operate, what businesses and residences are used along the way, and with the militias, who are funding them, how can those economic interests be boycotted, or business operations divested from.
Answer: End the War on Drugs.
May Fr. Rivas, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
That problem is already here in the United States via the horrible mess the Biden Administration has at the border with Mexico.
Those same Mexican drug cartels are profiting from the sell of human trafficking, the kidnap young Men and Women of ages between 12 and 14 to sell their organs and sell them in to prostitution
This article clearly states this is all the work of Satan in the drug cartels,as well as, in the leadership of the Democrat party in the United States and in the Biden Administration
The cartels and trafficking are a horrible problem but please don’t blame it on democrats unless you have proof, and I doubt you have none.
Right now the worst problems seems to becoming from innocent people trying to escape horrible situations caused by Venezuela. That’s why they come here, not the other way around.
Bearing false witness is a sin.