Bogotá, Colombia, Sep 24, 2020 / 14:56 pm
The Colombian Bishops' Conference this week offered prayers and voiced "deep sorrow" over two new massacres in the country in recent days.
"We the Catholic bishops," they said in a Sept. 21 statement, "with deep sorrow for the death of these brothers, pray for their eternal rest and express our solidarity with their loved ones, the municipal communities to which they belonged, the archdiocese of Popayán and the diocese of Tumaco. We also ask the Lord for the speedy recovery of the wounded."
They called for "a definitive end to this machinery of death."
Six young people were killed in a rural area of the municipality of Buenos Aires, and four people were killed in the municipalities of Mosquera and El Charco in attacks that also led to injuries and property damage.