Priest murdered - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 14 Mar 2022 07:12:26 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Priest murdered - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Four convicted in Islamic State killing of French priest https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/03/14/four-convicted-in-islamic-state-killing-of-french-priest/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 06:50:39 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=144651 Four men were convicted in Paris of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of a Catholic priest in a Normandy church in 2016, an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The four were handed sentences of between eight years and life in prison over the attack on Father Jacques Hamel, 85. Fr Hamel was stabbed Read more

Four convicted in Islamic State killing of French priest... Read more]]> Four men were convicted in Paris of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of a Catholic priest in a Normandy church in 2016, an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

The four were handed sentences of between eight years and life in prison over the attack on Father Jacques Hamel, 85. Fr Hamel was stabbed in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray by two 19-year-olds as he finished Mass. Two nuns and an elderly couple were held hostage before the assailants slashed the priest's throat and seriously injured another elderly churchgoer.

The two attackers, Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, were killed by police as they left the church. The four men on trial were accused of having helped or encouraged the attack.

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Four convicted in Islamic State killing of French priest]]> 144651 Priest, a seminary rector, slain in El Salvador https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/08/10/priest-seminary-rector-el-salvador/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:50:02 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=129536 A Roman Catholic priest has been shot to death along a road in El Salvador and church authorities on Saturday called for an investigation into the slaying. The church celebrated a Mass on Saturday for the Rev. Ricardo Antonio Cortez, who was rector at the seminary named for recently canonized Oscar Arnulfo Romero in the Read more

Priest, a seminary rector, slain in El Salvador... Read more]]> A Roman Catholic priest has been shot to death along a road in El Salvador and church authorities on Saturday called for an investigation into the slaying.

The church celebrated a Mass on Saturday for the Rev. Ricardo Antonio Cortez, who was rector at the seminary named for recently canonized Oscar Arnulfo Romero in the city of Santiago de Maria.

Officials say Cortez was intercepted and shot by unknown attackers while on his way to that city in eastern El Salvador. The motive for the killing wasn't immediately known.

"We reiterate most energetically our condemnation of this terrible crime," said Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas, speaking for the Central American nation's conference of bishops. Read more

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