Mexico’s Catholic leaders have urged the country’s political leaders to listen to victims of violence, seek input from all sectors of society, and work together toward pacifying the country as the nation confronts rampant insecurity. Swaths of the country are currently under the control of criminal groups, and citizens are increasingly being exposed to crimes such as extortion. “We don’t come today to ask permission to build peace. We come to implore every sector of society, every Mexican, and the Mexican state itself to assume this historic responsibility, because peace cannot wait,” Auxiliary Bishop Héctor Pérez Villarreal of Mexico City said January 12.
