Priest in Mexico saves 3 children after gang violence

A priest rescued three abandoned children in a Mexican town following a confrontation between crime gangs that left one dead and a Catholic church riddled with bullets.

The church in the small settlement of Santa Anita (population 84) in the Diocese of Tarahumara in Chihuahua state was the scene of the confrontation between the rival gangs. The settlement is located fewer than 125 miles south of Cerocahui, also in Chihuahua, where almost a year ago two Jesuit priests were murdered inside a Catholic church.

The Mexican priest said that the criminals “directly blasted the church, because there are too many bullets inside and out” to just be stray shots. The youngest of the minors he rescued was just 1 year old, while the other two were 9 and 11.