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Bogotá, Colombia, Aug 15, 2016 / 02:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Colombian Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the government's announcement that it will not promote or implement gender ideology in the nation’s schools, after massive marches of protest last week.In a statement released Friday, August 12, the bishops thanked President Juan Manuel Santos for his invitation to dialogue and said that they “received with satisfaction the announcement of the National Government and the Department of Education that they will not promote or implement gender ideology in the country.”A meeting with the president and three bishops, which included Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, took place August 11, after which the president made a public statement on the issue.Additionally, the Department of Education published a statement in which they stated that neither they nor the National Government would advocate or put into practice gender ideology teachings.The de...
Bogotá, Colombia, Aug 15, 2016 / 02:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Colombian Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the government's announcement that it will not promote or implement gender ideology in the nation’s schools, after massive marches of protest last week.
In a statement released Friday, August 12, the bishops thanked President Juan Manuel Santos for his invitation to dialogue and said that they “received with satisfaction the announcement of the National Government and the Department of Education that they will not promote or implement gender ideology in the country.”
A meeting with the president and three bishops, which included Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, took place August 11, after which the president made a public statement on the issue.
Additionally, the Department of Education published a statement in which they stated that neither they nor the National Government would advocate or put into practice gender ideology teachings.
The department's text states that “the United Nation's Population Fund's document on school environments was published on the United Nations web pages in order to be discussed, without authorization from the department, as was noted in the public statement of that organization. That document will not be authorized.”
The document they referred to is the 93-page text entitled “Discrimination Free School Environments,” developed within the framework of an agreement signed by the Department of Education and three U.N. institutions: the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; the United Nations Population Fund; and the United Nations Development Program.
The cost of the agreement is more than $500,000. It was created in consultation with principals and teachers from the schools.
In their August 12 statement, the bishops of Colombia said that “we will follow closely and provide timely follow up to what the National Government has said in the August 11 statement, released by the Department of Education.”
After reports that the Department of Education was preparing teaching manuals promoting homosexuality and suggesting that there is no essential difference between male and female, Colombians took to the streets in massive protest marches on Aug. 10. The protests took place in Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cali, Medellín, Ibagué, Bucaramanga, Tunca, Palmira, Popayán, and other cities.
Commenting on the marches, the bishops said that they see in them a strong support for the family unit as the fundamental cell of society and “an exercise by the parents of their right to be assisted in educating their children in accordance with their convictions and values.”
They then emphasized the importance of respect “for every human being regardless of their race, sex, sexual orientation, national or family origin, language, religion or political opinion” and encouraged the creation of environments free of violence and discrimination.
Finally, the bishops urged parents to “assume with real responsibility the mission of being the first teachers of your children, according to the dictates of your conscience, and to actively participate in all the processes related to their integral formation.”
In July this year, a similar occurrence took place in Panama. Proposed Law 61, which would have promoted sexual and reproductive education in the schools, was returned to the nation’s health committee after a massive march by thousands of citizens in the capital.
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug 15, 2016 / 02:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Milwaukee riots and violence that followed a police shooting of an armed man this weekend show the need for a true Christian transformation in life and society, the city’s archbishop commented Monday.“I firmly believe that the loss of a strong faith that builds character and creates change is currently missing from our current, secular equation,” Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee said Aug. 15.“Faith in Jesus Christ has not changed. However, the commitment to live that faith has become dormant. It’s time to awaken our confidence, together, in Jesus Christ and the Gospel that presents us with the only true transformation which changes hearts as well as minds.”His words come after a fatal police shooting triggered both peaceful protests and violent riots, and apparently led to another shooting.“It was painful to watch,” Archbishop Listecki said. “Members of a neigh...
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug 15, 2016 / 02:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Milwaukee riots and violence that followed a police shooting of an armed man this weekend show the need for a true Christian transformation in life and society, the city’s archbishop commented Monday.
“I firmly believe that the loss of a strong faith that builds character and creates change is currently missing from our current, secular equation,” Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee said Aug. 15.
“Faith in Jesus Christ has not changed. However, the commitment to live that faith has become dormant. It’s time to awaken our confidence, together, in Jesus Christ and the Gospel that presents us with the only true transformation which changes hearts as well as minds.”
His words come after a fatal police shooting triggered both peaceful protests and violent riots, and apparently led to another shooting.
“It was painful to watch,” Archbishop Listecki said. “Members of a neighborhood, who depend upon police protection, were fighting the police and burning businesses, which the community depends upon, as well as looting these businesses, which showed individuals not protesting, but stealing.”
“The anger and hurt that accompanies any action certainly is understandable, but violence is never justified as a response,” he added.
A deadly police shooting Aug. 13 triggered riots that night. Six businesses were burned, seventeen people were arrested, and four officers were hurt from flying concrete and glass.
Sunday protests included a confrontation between police and protestors. About 150 people blocked a Milwaukee intersection near the scene where a black police officer shot and killed a black man who allegedly turned towards an officer with a gun in his hand.
Some protestors threw bottles and rocks at about two dozen police officers in riot gear. Four sheriff’s deputies were injured.
An 18-year-old was shot and seriously injured after 11 p.m. Sunday.
The police shooting took place Saturday after a traffic stop due to alleged suspicious behavior. The car’s driver, 23-year-old Sylville K. Smith, fled the scene with a gun in his hand. He ran a few dozen feet then turned towards the officer, police chief Edward Flynn said.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said a still image from the police officer’s body camera footage clearly showed a gun in Smith’s hand.
The mayor asked people to remember Smith’s family.
“A young man lost his life yesterday afternoon,” he said. “And no matter what the circumstances are, his family has to be hurting.”
Archbishop Listecki reflected on the unrest.
“Protest is a right of every American, but burning, shooting at legitimate authority and stealing are not,” he said, characterizing these as “self-inflicted wounds” on the rioters’ community.
He encouraged efforts to build the family, the economy, and a low-crime society to defuse the situation.
The archbishop also prayed for peace.
“We entrust our prayers to support the families and police authorities who have been caught in this conflict, as well as pray for peace in our neighborhoods and communities in Milwaukee and throughout the world.”
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