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(Vatican Radio) The Archbishop of Venezuela’s capital city Caracas issued a pressing appeal on Saturday to the government of Nicolas Maduro to immediately cease perpetrating acts of repression against the population.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: In a statement, Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino said he firmly expresses his disapproval for the acts of repression that the Government – through the actions of the “Guardia Nacional de Venezuela” and some police and paramilitary groups – has perpetrated against the people during the past 80 days of political protest.Cardinal Savino also notes that in the Constitution is enshrined the right of the people to demonstrate against the grave situation caused by the lack of food and basic necessities.The people – he continues – also have the right to not recognize the authority of the recently established national Assembly.The Cardinal concludes decrying the detention of those who are...
(Vatican Radio) The Archbishop of Venezuela’s capital city Caracas issued a pressing appeal on Saturday to the government of Nicolas Maduro to immediately cease perpetrating acts of repression against the population.
Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni:
In a statement, Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino said he firmly expresses his disapproval for the acts of repression that the Government – through the actions of the “Guardia Nacional de Venezuela” and some police and paramilitary groups – has perpetrated against the people during the past 80 days of political protest.
Cardinal Savino also notes that in the Constitution is enshrined the right of the people to demonstrate against the grave situation caused by the lack of food and basic necessities.
The people – he continues – also have the right to not recognize the authority of the recently established national Assembly.
The Cardinal concludes decrying the detention of those who are guilty, he says, only of having voiced their opposition to the government and he condemns the refusal of the government itself to hold new elections as foreseen by the Constitution.
There have been almost daily anti-government protests in Venezuela for over two months as the country's economic and political crisis has worsened. More than 70 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April.
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See' Representative to the United Nations in New York is calling for vanity to be set aside in Venezuela and for common sense and humanity to motivate the leaders of both sides of the political divide, to mediate face to face at a negotiations table, finding a way out of the country's deepening enveloping crisis. Listen to the report by James Blears: Archbishop Bernardito Auza made this empassioned plea to the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, which is meeting in Cancun, Mexico. He stressed that the Church is urging mediation. He's calling for a peaceful, lasting and viable solution to Venezuela's crisis with urgent and immediate measures to resolve the acute food and medicine shortage, Church organizations will provide aid and assistance. And...for both sides to agree upon an election date, while speeding up the release of detainees. He asking the Government and the Opposition...
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See' Representative to the United Nations in New York is calling for vanity to be set aside in Venezuela and for common sense and humanity to motivate the leaders of both sides of the political divide, to mediate face to face at a negotiations table, finding a way out of the country's deepening enveloping crisis.
Listen to the report by James Blears:
Archbishop Bernardito Auza made this empassioned plea to the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, which is meeting in Cancun, Mexico. He stressed that the Church is urging mediation. He's calling for a peaceful, lasting and viable solution to Venezuela's crisis with urgent and immediate measures to resolve the acute food and medicine shortage, Church organizations will provide aid and assistance. And...for both sides to agree upon an election date, while speeding up the release of detainees.
He asking the Government and the Opposition to put their people in front of their own opposing political interests, saying:
"Both the Holy Father as well as the State Secretariat and the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference are calling upon the public and political powers to surmount partisan interests and ideologies. To listen to the voice of the people, to defend common good, fostering action to address the undeniable crisis in Venezuela."
What he says must, will and inevitably come to pass. The question is just when pride, ambition and polar opposite positions will be abandoned to embrace the future wellbeing of Venezuala and its grievously suffering people.
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Máxima, of the Netherlands in the Vatican for a State Visit on Thursday.A communiqué from the Holy See Press Office said their discussions were “cordial” and touched on issues of shared interest, including “the protection of the environment and the fight against poverty, as well as on the specific contribution of the Holy See and the Catholic Church in these fields.”They also paid “particular attention to the phenomenon of migration, underlining the importance of peaceful co-existence between different cultures, and joint commitment to promoting peace and global security, with special reference to various areas of conflict.”The King, the Queen, and the Pope also reflected together “on the prospects of the European project”, according to the communiqué.Afterwards, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima met with Cardinal Pi...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Máxima, of the Netherlands in the Vatican for a State Visit on Thursday.
A communiqué from the Holy See Press Office said their discussions were “cordial” and touched on issues of shared interest, including “the protection of the environment and the fight against poverty, as well as on the specific contribution of the Holy See and the Catholic Church in these fields.”
They also paid “particular attention to the phenomenon of migration, underlining the importance of peaceful co-existence between different cultures, and joint commitment to promoting peace and global security, with special reference to various areas of conflict.”
The King, the Queen, and the Pope also reflected together “on the prospects of the European project”, according to the communiqué.
Afterwards, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, and Arcbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for Relations with States.
