The killing has shaken Catholic Church officials, who say they still do not know what led to the assassination or what it means for the church.

Authorities said Father Walter Vasquez Jimenez was traveling with parishioners March 29 to officiate a Holy Thursday Mass in San Miguel when their car was stopped by an armed group wearing masks. The other passengers were set free after their belongings were taken, but Father Vasquez was abducted, shot and left to die.

Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned amid accusations of corruption.

The U.N. report documents cases of extrajudicial murders committed by police, illegal house raids and threats and harassment against journalists and social and political activists in Honduras.

Her husband was skeptical but prayed to Blessed Oscar Romero to save his wife.

Father Grande was known as a champion of the poor and the oppressed at a time when El Salvador was on the threshold of a civil war, a war that eventually killed over 70,000 people.