Campaigning priest dies in robbery

A US priest who put an international spotlight on human rights abuses in Brazil in the 1970s has been killed by robbers in northern Guatemala.

Wed, 20 May, 2009 - 10:04

A US priest who put an international spotlight on human rights abuses in Brazil in the 1970s has been killed by robbers in northern Guatemala.

Father Lawrence Rosebaugh of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot several times by masked gunmen who stopped a car carrying him and four other missionaries to a meeting in Playa Grande, Guatemala.

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