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The faithful attended today the ‘Day of Peace’ mass in the Mexican city of Chapala, after two Jesuit priests were killed a week ago in the northern city of Chihuahua.
The two victims join about 30 priests killed across Mexico in the past decade, the country’s largest Catholic organization, Catolico Multimedial, said.
Like many other citizens they found themselves in the crossfire of the army forces and local criminal gangs.
More than 340,000 have been killed in Mexico since the government’s crackdown on drug cartels began in 2006.
A Mexican bishop today proposed a “social pact” between traffickers and the military, after violence that has prompted calls for a rethink of President Manuel Lopez Obrador’s security campaign.
The bishop of Zacatecas, told the daily ‘Milenio’ that a pact is needed “where the whole society participates, even the criminals in some way”.
Catholic bishops have repeatedly urged the government to review its security strategies against gangs after successive failures.
The government blames gangs involved in drug trafficking, fuel theft, hostage-taking and extortion crimes for the deaths.
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