Religion & Law

Marisol Valles Garcia flees Mexican town after becoming police chief, says report
Relative says she received death threats from a criminal group

Marisol Valles Garcia, Mexican police chief, fired after apparently fleeing death threats
Relative says she received death threats from a criminal group

Lead official in Mexican migrant slaughter goes missing
Last week, Mexican authorities started investigating the murder of 72 migrants who were found slaughtered in Tamaulipas state. Complicating matters? One of the officials leading the investigation has now gone missing...

Priest Convicted in Nuns Death During Botched Exorcism
A former priest, Daniel Corogeanu, had been convicted of murder in the death of a nun during an exorcism gone bad. The court in Romania gave the monk seven years, though the case raises serious questions over the use of these extreme religious rites.

UN rights chief urges Mexico to probe government complicity in migrant kidnappings
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Friday called on the Mexican government to investigate possible complicity [press release] by government officials in the mid-December abduction of 40 Central American migrants...

Mexico issues travel alert over new Ariz. immigration law
Typically the subject of global travel warnings due to rampant, drug-fueled violence, Mexico issued an unusual alert Tuesday to Mexican citizens in Arizona. The country warned that the state's adoption of a strict immigration enforcement law has created "a negative political environment for migrant communities and for all Mexican visitors...

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Mexican Style Soft Cheese Recalled
Mexican Style Soft Cheese Recalled due to Possible Listeria Contamination

Roman Catholic Church
Diocese of Antigonish faces class action over abuse by a priest

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update

Clergy Molester
Religious group to pay $1.3 million in priest molestation settlement.

US Government
alleging land surveyors should not be allowed on private property to build a US Mexican border wall.

Wrongful Death
alleging death was caused by the conduct of negligent defendant.