Pope denounces slaying of Honduran environmental defender

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Pope Francis has condemned the slaying of an environmental activist in Honduras. On Sunday, he joined international voices expressing concern over the killing. Juan López, the environmental leader, was gunned down earlier this month. He had spent years fighting mining companies to protect rivers and forests.

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The environmental leader, Juan López, was gunned down earlier this month in the municipality of Tocoa in rural northern Honduras after spending years combating mining companies to The rural Caribbean region of Colón has seen a wave of slayings of environmentalists in recent years, and three activists from López’s organizationLast week, Brian A. Nichols, assistant U.S. secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, demanded justice for López. The United Nations called for “competent authorities to carry out an immediate, exhaustive and impartial investigation to identify and punish the people responsible, both material and intellectual, for this murder.

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