Colombian priest dies after being stabbed 17 times
Police in the northern coastal city of Barranquilla are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the stabbing death of a priest on Monday afternoon.
Police in the northern coastal city of Barranquilla are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the stabbing death of a priest on Monday afternoon.
A Colombian priest will be re-sentenced for the murder of his lover and their child, after a judge decided his previous sentence was insufficient, reported local media Friday. According to investigators,…
New details emerged in Colombian priests’ murder/suicide case, which has gripped the nation, reported local media Monday. Colombians were shocked last week when investigators revealed that two priests found shot dead in Bogota last year had…
A Colombian court sentenced a priest and former teacher to over seven years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old student, reported the news site Terra Friday. An attorney at…
Catholic priest and human rights activist Javier Giraldo claims that threats made against him come from state agencies working with paramilitaries, reports Terra. Giraldo, who works on behalf of Afro-Colombian communities in…
Father Oscar Alberto Ortiz Henao, a priest in the San Antonio de Prado municipality near Medellin, central Colombia, was arrested Sunday, on charges of serving as second-in-command of a local paramilitary group.…
The Vatican on Thursday confirmed the authenticity of a 2001 letter published by French website Golias in which Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos congratulates French bishop Pierre Pican for not…
A conman pretending to be a priest was arrested by police in Bogota on Thursday for falsely collecting money for Haiti. Radio Santa Fe reported that the man asked parishioners…
Colombia’s catholic church denounced a “record” number of killed priests and bishops and called parties involved in the country’s violent conflict to respect religious workers. According to the Archbishop Ruben…