{"id":20038,"date":"2017-05-17T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/archdiocese-speaks-out-as-mexico-tops-list-of-violent-countries-78943\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:12:00","slug":"as-mexico-tops-list-of-violent-countries-archdiocese-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/05\/as-mexico-tops-list-of-violent-countries-archdiocese-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"As Mexico tops list of violent countries, archdiocese reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/Violence_in_Mexico_Credit_Frontpage_Shutterstock_CNA.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2017 \/ 04:12 pm (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Mexico archdiocese's newspaper Desde la Fe wrote an editorial decrying the \u201cdisastrous situation in Mexico\u201d as the country ranks number two in a report on the world's most violent nations.<\/p>\n<p>In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides.<\/p>\n<p>The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic weekly warned that \u201cthe collateral consequences\u201d of the violence the country is going through \u201ccan already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,\u201d the editorial wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Desde la Fe also emphasized the \u201chigh incidence of disappearances in the country,\u201d citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M\u00e9xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur history is at a very painful turning point,\u201d Desde la Fe wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the Mexican Bishops' Conference said that victims and persons gone missing by violence \u201care a serious problem that neither the authorities, the Church, nor civil society can ignore\u201d and they need \u201ca public pronouncement go along with their indignation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victims and missing persons, the editorial added, \u201calso expect to know the truth and have effective reparation of the harm done, things that don't have clarity or consistency in the Mexican State, which seems rather broken in the face of fear and terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Desde la Fe recalled the study \u201cWe are all missing the disappeared\u201d \u2013 published by the Mexican Bishops' Conference and the Mexican Institute on Christian Social Doctrine earlier this month \u2013 which described some of the measures taken by the Church in the country to assist victims of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese of Mexico City pointed out that \u201cwhat the study demonstrates is worrisome since it reveals that in Mexico we live in a state of disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews?a=-XQqVhNwCz0:QYseNxrXYfY:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews\/~4\/-XQqVhNwCz0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/Violence_in_Mexico_Credit_Frontpage_Shutterstock_CNA.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2017 \/ 04:12 pm (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/\" target=\"_self\">CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Mexico archdiocese&#8217;s newspaper Desde la Fe wrote an editorial decrying the &ldquo;disastrous situation in Mexico&rdquo; as the country ranks number two in a report on the world&#8217;s most violent nations.<\/p>\n<p>In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides.<\/p>\n<p>The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the Mexican Bishops&#8217; Conference said that victims and persons gone missing by violence &ldquo;are a serious problem that neither the authorities, the Church, nor civil society can ignore&rdquo; and they need &ldquo;a public pronouncement go along with their indignation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The victims and missing persons, the editorial added, &ldquo;also expect to know the truth and have effective reparation of the harm done, things that don&#8217;t have clarity or consistency in the Mexican State, which seems rather broken in the face of fear and terror.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Desde la Fe recalled the study &ldquo;We are all missing the disappeared&rdquo; &ndash; published by the Mexican Bishops&#8217; Conference and the Mexican Institute on Christian Social Doctrine earlier this month &ndash; which described some of the measures taken by the Church in the country to assist victims of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese of Mexico City pointed out that &ldquo;what the study demonstrates is worrisome since it reveals that in Mexico we live in a state of disaster.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews?a=-XQqVhNwCz0:QYseNxrXYfY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews\/~4\/-XQqVhNwCz0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>As Mexico tops list of violent countries, archdiocese reacts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2017 \/ 04:12 pm (CNA\/EWTN News).- The Mexico archdiocese&#039;s newspaper Desde la Fe wrote an editorial decrying the &ldquo;disastrous situation in Mexico&rdquo; as the country ranks number two in a report on the world&#039;s most violent nations. In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides. The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence. The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote. Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa. &ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote. It noted that the Mexican Bishops&#039; Conference said that victims and persons gone missing by violence &ldquo;are a serious problem that neither the authorities, the Church, nor civil society can ignore&rdquo; and they need &ldquo;a public pronouncement go along with their indignation.&rdquo; The victims and missing persons, the editorial added, &ldquo;also expect to know the truth and have effective reparation of the harm done, things that don&#039;t have clarity or consistency in the Mexican State, which seems rather broken in the face of fear and terror.&rdquo; Desde la Fe recalled the study &ldquo;We are all missing the disappeared&rdquo; &ndash; published by the Mexican Bishops&#039; Conference and the Mexican Institute on Christian Social Doctrine earlier this month &ndash; which described some of the measures taken by the Church in the country to assist victims of violence. 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In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides. The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence. The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote. Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa. &ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote. It noted that the Mexican Bishops&#039; Conference said that victims and persons gone missing by violence &ldquo;are a serious problem that neither the authorities, the Church, nor civil society can ignore&rdquo; and they need &ldquo;a public pronouncement go along with their indignation.&rdquo; The victims and missing persons, the editorial added, &ldquo;also expect to know the truth and have effective reparation of the harm done, things that don&#039;t have clarity or consistency in the Mexican State, which seems rather broken in the face of fear and terror.&rdquo; Desde la Fe recalled the study &ldquo;We are all missing the disappeared&rdquo; &ndash; published by the Mexican Bishops&#039; Conference and the Mexican Institute on Christian Social Doctrine earlier this month &ndash; which described some of the measures taken by the Church in the country to assist victims of violence. 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In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides. The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence. The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote. Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa. &ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote. 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In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides. The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence. The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote. Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa. &ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote. 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In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides. The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence. The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote. Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa. &ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote. 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In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides. The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence. The Catholic weekly warned that &ldquo;the collateral consequences&rdquo; of the violence the country is going through &ldquo;can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is far from having a satisfactory solution,&rdquo; the editorial wrote. Desde la Fe also emphasized the &ldquo;high incidence of disappearances in the country,&rdquo; citing the National Registry of Data on Lost or Missing Persons which stated that as of October 2016 there were approximately 30,000 missing persons. The Mexican states recording the highest percentage of disappearances are Tamaulipas, M&eacute;xico, Jalisco and Sinaloa. &ldquo;Our history is at a very painful turning point,&rdquo; Desde la Fe wrote. It noted that the Mexican Bishops' Conference said that victims and persons gone missing by violence &ldquo;are a serious problem that neither the authorities, the Church, nor civil society can ignore&rdquo; and they need &ldquo;a public pronouncement go along with their indignation.&rdquo; The victims and missing persons, the editorial added, &ldquo;also expect to know the truth and have effective reparation of the harm done, things that don't have clarity or consistency in the Mexican State, which seems rather broken in the face of fear and terror.&rdquo; Desde la Fe recalled the study &ldquo;We are all missing the disappeared&rdquo; &ndash; published by the Mexican Bishops' Conference and the Mexican Institute on Christian Social Doctrine earlier this month &ndash; which described some of the measures taken by the Church in the country to assist victims of violence. The Archdiocese of Mexico City pointed out that &ldquo;what the study demonstrates is worrisome since it reveals that in Mexico we live in a state of disaster.&rdquo;","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/05\/as-mexico-tops-list-of-violent-countries-archdiocese-reacts\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/05\/as-mexico-tops-list-of-violent-countries-archdiocese-reacts\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/05\/as-mexico-tops-list-of-violent-countries-archdiocese-reacts\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"As Mexico tops list of violent countries, archdiocese reacts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/","name":"Catholic News","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#\/schema\/person\/35d4bd7addc580050842c844a11575f1","name":"CNA Daily News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8f1180c7dca7995d4a997aac72a3a88a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8f1180c7dca7995d4a997aac72a3a88a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"CNA Daily News"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/author\/cna-daily-news\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}