
Priest Killed by Islamists To Be Beatified
Pope Francis called Fr. Jacques Hamel a martyr after he was murdered while saying Mass.

Pope Francis called Fr. Jacques Hamel a martyr after he was murdered while saying Mass.

The trial has begun of four individuals believed to have been involved in the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old Catholic priest whose throat was slit by two Islamic terrorists while celebrating Mass at a church in northwest France in 2016.