Tampico, Mexico, Apr 1, 2017 / 05:02 am
A priest in Mexico's state of Tamaulipas who had been abducted earlier this week was freed on Thursday after media pressure on the case.
Fr. Oscar López Navarro, a member of the Missionaries of Christ the Mediator, was kidnapped March 28 as he was arriving at his parish of St. Joseph the Worker in Altamira, fewer than 20 miles north of Tampico.
Bishop José Luis Dibildox Martínez of Tampico told news outlets that Fr. López, 40, had been followed by the criminals, and when he arrived in his car at the church he was kidnapped as he soon as he opened the vehicle's door.
The priest was released the morning of March 30.