The religious leader also spoke at the end of the Angelus ceremony in the Plaza de San Pedro, in the Vatican about the murder of the priest Tzotzil Marcelo Pérez, died in October 2024.
“That his sacrifice, like that of other priests killed by fidelity to the ministry, are seeds of peace and Christian life,” he said.
The Pontiff celebrated a Mass dedicated to migrants in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, during his only visit in Mexico made in February 2016, where he recognized the serious risks they face, as well as the human trafficking business.
“In Ciudad Juárez, as in other border areas, thousands of migrants from Central America and other countries are concentrated, not forgetting so many Mexicans who also seek Simultaneous on the other side of the border in El Paso, Texas.
Prior to his trip through Mexico, Pope Francis recognized the problem of drug trafficking at the Mexico-United States border and called drug traffickers as “Messengers of Death” during an interview conducted by the journalist Valentina Alazraki in April 2015.
“The border through which the drug enters, the main one is the Mexican, so there is also suffered. Morelia, all that area, is an area of much suffering where drug traffickers also do not leave with little ones, that is, they know how to do their death work, they are death messengers,” he said then.
