ICC Note: A Mexican priest named Alfredo Lopez Guillen was recently found dead along a highway after going missing last week. An autopsy revealed that Guillen had been shot while the family confirmed the identity of his body. Guillen’s death marks a disturbing surge in violence as his death was the third murder of a priest in Mexico within the span of only one week.

By Mark Woods

09/26/2016 Mexico (Christian Today) – A Mexican priest was found murdered in the central state of Michoacan, the state attorney general said on Sunday, the third to be killed in the country in less than a week.

The priest, identified as Jose Alfredo Lopez Guillen, was found on a highway between Puruandiro and Zinaparo.

He had been reported missing last Monday, abducted from his church in rural Janamuato. The kidnapping came after two priests, Fathers Alejo Nabor Jimenez Juarez and Jose Alfredo Suarez de la Cruz, were kidnapped and killed in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. They were also found dead on a roadside.

Cardinal Alberto Suarez Inda, head of the Morelia archdiocese, said in an online video statement then: “After sharing the enormous pain of the death of two young priests in the diocese of Papantla, Veracruz, we are now suffering our own anguish with the disappearance of one of our priests.”

He said that Father Guillen was “a good man, a man who does good, a peaceful man, and so this barbarity is in no way justified”.

Autopsy results, which revealed gunshot wounds to be the cause of death, suggested Guillen was killed five days before his body was found.

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