The Society of Jesus is a religious order serving in the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1540. From the very beginning the Jesuit priests and brothers were always on the move, ready to go where they could advance the faith in Jesus Christ and his Good News with all its radical and practical implications for the world and for every human person.
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Two Jesuits killed in Moscow |
Two Jesuits, Fathers Otto Messmer and Victor Betancourt,
killed in Moscow
On Saturday 25 October, Father Victor Betancourt,
an Ecuadorian Jesuit working in the St. Thomas Philosophical,
Theological and Historical Institute in Moscow, was killed in his home.
Two days later, after returning from a trip abroad, Father Otto Messmer, Superior of the Russian Region,
was also killed in the same place. On Tuesday 28 October, alarmed by
the fact that he hadn’t heard from the two men, a fellow Jesuit who
lives in another community went to visit them at home. On finding the
dead bodies, he immediately contacted the police.
The police investigations have yet to come to any firm conclusions about cause of these violent deaths.
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