Priests killed in Colombia

Father Sanchez was teaching a high school religion class yesterday when gunmen came in, dragged him outside, and shot him to death: the third priest to be killed this week, according to press reports.

Monday, two priests driving on a country road were killed with gunfire and explosives. Two laborers traveling with them were also killed.

Sixty priests, a bishop, an archbishop, and three nuns have been killed in the past two decades, many of those by armed groups involved in Colombia's ongoing civil war.

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