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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The two victims join about 30 priests killed across Mexico in the past decade, the country’s largest Catholic organization, Catolico Multimedial, said.<\/p>\n
Like many other citizens they found themselves in the crossfire of the army forces and local criminal gangs.<\/p>\n
More than 340,000 people have been killed in Mexico since the government’s crackdown on drug cartels began in 2006.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The bishop of Zacatecas, told the daily ‘Milenio’ that a pact is needed “where the whole society participates, even the criminals in some way”.<\/p>\n
Catholic bishops have frequently urged the government to review its security strategies against gangs after successive failures.<\/p>\n
The government blames gangs involved in drug trafficking, fuel theft, hostage-taking and extortion crimes for the deaths.<\/p>\n
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