{"id":33217,"date":"2019-02-05T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=33217"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:08:52","slug":"venezuelan-church-denounces-the-political-repression-and-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/02\/05\/venezuelan-church-denounces-the-political-repression-and-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"VENEZUELAN CHURCH DENOUNCES THE POLITICAL REPRESSION AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Appeal for prayers for peace on Sunday 10 February <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United in their concern to \u201cavoid still greater suffering and pain for the people\u201d and in their hope for a change in the course of the political and democratic situation that Venezuela is currently going through, the Venezuelan Bishops\u2019 Conference have launched a joint communiqu\u00e9, together with the Conference of Male and Female Religious and the National Council of the Laity in Venezuela, published on Monday 4 February in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement expresses the \u201cdetermination and hope\u201d with which the signatories urge the search \u201cfor a political transformation via a process of transparent and peaceful transition that will lead to free and legitimate elections and the resumption of a democratic course, the restoration of the rule of law, the rebuilding of the social fabric, the revival of economic production, the restoration of the morale of the country and the coming together of all the Venezuelan people.\u201d They speak of the difficult situation that is currently being written in the annals of Venezuelan history and one that both the Venezuelan people and clergy and also the international community are witnessing with great hope, and yet at the same time with great concern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In their communiqu\u00e9, the presidents of the three bodies which most fully represent the Catholic Church of the country denounce \u201cthe growing, politically motivated repression, the violation of human rights and the selective and arbitrary detentions\u201d of individuals and they insist that this path of democratic change be allowed to unfold peacefully and with the National Constitution in hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They express their appreciation of the work of the activists who are defending and promoting human rights at a time of crisis and despite the risks, and they urge them to continue in their concern for \u201cthe victims who are suffering injustices\u201d. They state: \u201cWe call for personal and legal respect and security for those who are exercising this worthy service in Venezuela.\u201d In this way they remind people that the Catholic Church is committed to helping those most in need, \u201cacting in accordance with the principles of independence, impartiality and humanity\u201d and at the same time they request \u201cthe necessary permissions to have access to humanitarian aid as a means of mitigating the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable of the people. Caritas Venezuela and the various other social support institutions of the Church which have a wider outreach throughout the national territory commit themselves to continuing the service we have been providing, with equity, inclusivity, transparency and effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The communiqu\u00e9 ends with a call for prayer on Sunday 10 February in \u201cevery church, every home and every community, calling on the Lord to grant us peace, reconciliation, liberty and health of body and spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>An unprecedented situation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current political situation in Venezuela is the result of the presidential elections held in May 2018 which, according to the official government version, were won by the incumbent president Nicolas Maduro, but which were widely qualified as \u201cillegitimate\u201d by the majority of countries in the international community, including other Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Santa Lucia, as well as by Canada, Spain and the United States on account of the numerous irregularities in the way in which they were held. Hence, given the illegitimate nature of the elections, President Maduro would thereby cease to be the legitimate president as from the conclusion of his previous mandate, on 10 January, and therefore no longer be recognised as President of the Republic. Instead, and in accordance with the Venezuelan Constitution, the acting president of Venezuela would be the president of the National Assembly of the country, who in this case is Juan Gerardo Guaid\u00f3. And so, on 11 January 2019, Guaid\u00f3 announced that he would be invoking article 233 of the Constitution and calling new national elections, and on 23 January he was sworn in as acting president of Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appeal for prayers for peace on Sunday 10 February United in their concern to \u201cavoid still greater suffering and pain for the people\u201d and in their hope for a change in the course of the political and democratic situation that Venezuela is currently going through, the Venezuelan Bishops\u2019 Conference have launched a joint communiqu\u00e9, together&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33217","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 - 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