| Mexican Catholic Church Leaders Fend Off Assassination Threats Agence France-Presse | |
| go to original December 3, 2013 |
 |
 |
Leaders of Mexico's Roman Catholic church fended off death threats last month phoned in by purported members of a drug cartel demanding extortion payments, a church spokesman confirmed Monday.
The calls were received November 20 and 21 as church leaders were holding a training seminar for priests in Mexico City, said Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera.
Men identifying themselves as members of La Familia, a drug cartel based in the state of Michoacan, threatened to kill church leaders unless they were paid 60,000 pesos (about $4,500), Rivera said on Sunday.
Valdemar said the church reported the phone calls to authorities and made no payments.
Read the rest at GlobalPost
We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!
Celebrate a Healthy Lifestyle
From activities like hiking, swimming, bike riding and yoga, to restaurants offering healthy menus, Vallarta-Nayarit is the ideal place to continue - or start - your healthy lifestyle routine.
Banderas Bay offers 34 miles of incomparable coastline in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit, and home to Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit's many great destinations.