Overview
- The Mexican Episcopal Conference said violence has become routine and urged national unity in a video message closing its 119th plenary assembly.
- The hierarchy reported threats and killings of priests, religious and pastoral workers, stressing that the Church will not remain silent.
- Leaders accused organized crime of exerting territorial control that fuels forced displacement and systematic extortion of businesses, transport workers and families.
- The statement challenged official claims of improving security, justice and the economy, citing daily impunity, insecurity on highways and households struggling to afford basics.
- The Church called for dialogue, stronger families and protection of youth from divisive ideologies, with no new government policy response reported in the coverage.