Especially in a predominantly Catholic country, it's much less likely they would risk killing a priest. Anyone else may be fair game, but not a priest or nun.
Probably because we now live in a world where practically everyone has a camera on them all the time and it's totally believable for random people to risk there lives for a picture that would get them likes on social media.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/priest-dying-soldier-1962/