{"id":24705,"date":"2017-09-19T06:03:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=24705"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T11:00:58","slug":"pope-francis-urges-united-nations-help-venezuela-crisis-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/09\/19\/pope-francis-urges-united-nations-help-venezuela-crisis-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis urges United Nations to help in Venezuela crisis-ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pope Francis<\/strong><strong> urges<\/strong><strong> United Nations <\/strong><strong>to<\/strong><strong> help in Venezuela crisis<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis was thinking about Venezuela throughout his visit to Colombia. As his plane took off for Bogota, Francis told journalists that they were going to fly over Venezuela and asked them \u201cto pray so there can be dialogue, that there will be stability, with dialogue with everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his Angelus address, Pope Francis again assured those present of his prayers for the countries of Latin America, particularly Venezuela, expressing his closeness to the nation and those of its citizens who have been welcomed into Colombia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFrom this city, known as the seat of human rights, I appeal for the rejection of all violence in political life and for a solution to the current grave crisis, which affects everyone, particularly the poorest and most disadvantaged of society,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During his visit to Columbia, Francis also met briefly with five Venezuelan bishops, whom he welcomed to the sacristy after celebrating Mass in Bogota. They were Cardinal Jorge Urosa, Archbishop of Caracas; Cardenal Baltazar Porras, Archbishop of M\u00e9rida; Jes\u00fas Gonz\u00e1lez de Z\u00e1rate, Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas; Bishop Mario Moronta of San Crist\u00f3bal; and Bishop Jos\u00e9 Luis Azuaje of Barinas, who is also President of the Latin American branch of C\u00e1ritas.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">On his return journey from Columbia, Pope Francis spoke about the appalling political and human rights crisis in Venezuela: \u201cIt seems that it&#8217;s a very hard thing, and the most painful are the humanitarian problem, the many people who escape or suffer\u2026we must help to resolve it in any way possible. I think the U.N. must also make itself felt there to help.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI think that the Holy See has spoken strongly and clearly,\u201d he added, also mentioning the many times he had previously spoken about the situation in Venezuela.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Pope also mentioned the Holy See\u2019s considerable work to promote dialogue in Venezuela, including the agreement to send a group of four ex-presidents as facilitators in a meeting between the Venezuelan government and the opposition in Oct 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The group consisted of former Colombian president Ernesto Samper Pizano, the secretary general of UNASUR (the Union of South American Nations); Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez of the Dominican Republic; \u00a0Mart\u00edn Torrijos of Panama and Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero of Spain. Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli also participated as a nuncio of the Holy See.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has suppressed opposition and democracy activists and moved to seize legislative power in Venezuela, triggering a wave of escalating protests and violence. The results of a July 30 election which Maduro convened were dismissed as illegitimate by the United States and several other nations. The burgeoning economic crisis has led to widespread chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Venezuela\u2019s Supreme Court has progressively dismantled the rule of law, becoming an instrument of President Nicolas Maduro\u2019s government in what amounts to a coup against the constitutional order the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), an international human rights group, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The collapse of the judiciary has left victims of torture, killings and disappearances and their families without recourse to justice after months of violent street protests, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) stated. It called on the U.N. 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