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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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The only example of an ‘insertion community’ in our province is situated in the village of Zejtun where the Jesuits have been residing since 1989. This small community is the hub of our Social Apostolate. The Jesuits here are involved in the locality by providing a number of literacy and informal education programs at the Paolo Freire Institute, close to the Zejtun Parish Church. The Centre of Faith & Justice and the Jesuit Refugee Service are also led by Jesuits forming part of the community.
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