Murderer of Jesuit missionary in Brazil convicted 38 years after crime

SÃO PAULO – Thirty-eight years after the brutal killing of Spanish-born Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas in the Amazonian State of Mato Grosso, the Brazilian judiciary finally issued an arrest warrant against one of the murderers.

Ronaldo Osmar, a local police deputy, was found guilty of killing Cañas in 2017. Only this month the deadline for any kind of legal appeal was finally over, which means that now Osmar should begin the fulfillment of his sentence. Given that he’s old and has been hospitalized...