{"id":23271,"date":"2017-06-20T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=23271"},"modified":"2017-06-20T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:29:17","slug":"venezuela-attacks-church-escalate-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/06\/20\/venezuela-attacks-church-escalate-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"VENEZUELA -Attacks against the Church escalate &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>VENEZUELA &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Attacks against the Church escalate<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Venezuelan bishops have openly criticised President Maduro\u2019s \u201crepressive nature through the suffocation of legitimate protest with excessive and inhuman violence.\u201d Citing the government\u2019s \u201crepressive nature through the suffocation of legitimate protest with excessive and inhuman violence,\u201d the bishops said that they cannot ignore \u201cthe sadness and suffering that this regime is provoking in our people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They bishops stand with the population that is protesting against the dictatorship and are respected and listened to as authoritative guides&#8230; but they are paying a heavy price for this. Now the bishops and the Church are considered an \u201cenemy\u201d against whom the Maduro presidency is lashing out with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Vatican, and even Pope Francis, has been strangely reticent on the increasing repression in Venezuela. They have failed to condemn the killing of dozens of innocent civilians during non-violent protests or even comment on the persecution of the Church itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only a few brave Venezuelan journalists dare to speak out against the persecution of the Church. Among the worst incidents were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Death threats and blasphemous graffiti on the walls of churches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Masses interrupted by gangs &#8211; Caracas cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino was silenced during the homily and forced to leave the church.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The venerated image of the Nazarene in the cathedral of Valencia smeared with human excrement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The chanceries of the dioceses of Guarenas and Maracay plundered.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thefts of consecrated hosts in Maracaibo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The headquarters of the episcopal conference devastated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One priest killed in Guayana and another abducted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The doors of the cathedral of Caracas damaged and its walls were covered with graffiti in praise of the government. That same day, a crowd of students from the Catholic university marched on the episcopal residence, as a sign of solidarity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENEZUELA &#8211;\u00a0Attacks against the Church escalate &nbsp; Venezuelan bishops have openly criticised President Maduro\u2019s \u201crepressive nature through the suffocation of legitimate protest with excessive and inhuman violence.\u201d Citing the government\u2019s \u201crepressive nature through the suffocation of legitimate protest with excessive and inhuman violence,\u201d the bishops said that they cannot ignore \u201cthe sadness and suffering that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VENEZUELA -Attacks against the Church escalate - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/06\/20\/venezuela-attacks-church-escalate-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VENEZUELA -Attacks against the Church escalate - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"VENEZUELA &#8211;\u00a0Attacks against the Church escalate &nbsp; 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