A missing Mexican priest was found shot dead off the side of a highway in western Mexico days after he was kidnapped from his parish residence, state prosecutors said Sunday. He was the third Roman Catholic priest to be slain in Mexico in the last week. The Michoacan prosecutor's office said an autopsy determined Lopez had been killed about five days before his body was found. On Sunday, the archdiocese reported Lopez's death through its social media accounts and called on authorities to solve the crime. The state prosecutor's office said its search for the priest began Wednesday after a relative reported Lopez was missing.

Source: ABC News September 25, 2016 20:54 UTC