While much of the news in the upcoming days will commemorate the lives of the UCA martyrs in El Salvador, unfortunately Catholic priests and nuns continue to be murdered under a variety of cicumstances throughout the entire hemisphere. From the
Independent Catholic News
Guatemalan Franciscan priest Fr Miguel Angel Hernandez, who had been assigned to a parish in Ocotepeque, Honduras) and who had disappeared last weekend, was found dead yesterday, in a province of eastern Guatemala.
And
Yesterday, there was news of another priest who had been brutally murdered in Brazil, the fourth in five months.
On October 22,
Rev. Ed Hinds was killed in Chatham, NJ. Religious women have also been murdered including the recent killing of
Sister Marguerite Bartz in New Mexico.
