They were running a school for the indigenous poor near the border with Venezuela. No motive has yet been ascertained, but the suspicion is that it may have been the drug lords sending a warning to the Church to stay out of their affairs.
Zenit reports: Father Gabriel Fernando Montoya Tamayo, 40, and Father Jesús Ariel Jiménez, 45, were killed by an unknown individual in the municipality of La Primavera, in the Colombian department of Vichada. More of the facts can be read here.
