Families of Missing #Ayotzinapa Students in Mexico Seek Pope's Intervention IANS
go to original December 23, 2014

Church offers hope for family of missing students in Mexico (Reuters)

MEXICO CITY - The families of the 43 students who went missing three months ago in Mexico have sought the intervention of Pope Francis to give more visibility to their search for justice, while the government has admitted that the country needs a more profound transformation in this regard.

The papal nuncio in Mexico, Christophe Pierre, held a Mass Monday for the students who disappeared Sep 26 from Iguala, in the southern state of Guerrero, and prayed for justice, reconciliation and peace in Mexico.

“The Pope is with you,” Pierre told the students’ families and classmates during the service, held on a soccer field at the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in Tixtla, where the missing youths were studying to become teachers.

The Catholic Church shares the families’ pain and they are always in its prayers, said the papal representative.

Parents of the kidnapped students held up placards with messages such as “Merry Christmas, (President Enrique) Peña Nieto, we will continue looking for our missing”, “Jesus Christ died for truth. Where is it?” and “Merry Christmas my son, wherever you are”.

Following the Mass, the students’ parents met privately with the nuncio for more than 30 minutes, urging him to ask Pope Francis to do more to raise the profile of the case.

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