"It appears that they have no tolerance for any movement, any group, any organization that is not under their total control," Gulen said.

"McCoy Jordan was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being unanimously found guilty by a jury last June."

"All life is sacred—innocent or flawed—just as Jesus Christ taught us and demonstrated repeatedly throughout his ministry."

Over 700 individuals participated in a four-day conference celebrating the 50-year anniversary.

"We want the perpetrators to apologize, and the country must seek appropriate mechanisms to forgive and repair, so that that does not happen again," Miguel Montenegro said.

"As Catholics we know, reconciliation is a process, there are no magic pills, as much as we might want them," Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux said.