AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops are always close to the 3 and a half million Peruvians away from home

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) has sent a message to the "three and a half million Peruvians who are away from their homeland in search of a better future for themselves and their families", ensuring that, although they are abroad, "they are always part of our nation, and no one must feel excluded from our history or from the maternal affection of the Church".
The message, sent to Agenzia Fides, is signed by His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro Garcia Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho and President of CEP; by His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona, Bishop of Ica and President of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Social care, and by His Exc. Mgr. Daniel Turley Murphy, Bishop of Chulucanas and President of the Pastoral care of Human Mobility.
The message was published at the end of October, and has a special meaning for Peru as it is characterized by the many celebrations in honor of the "Señor de los Milagros" that takes place both in the Latin American nation and where there are communities of Peruvians in the world, because "Christ Moreno" was declared by the Bishops "Patron of Peruvian immigrants".
The Bishops stress "new forms of poverty and fragility in which we are called to recognize the suffering Christ" and cite: the homeless, drug addicts, refugees, indigenous people, the elderly are more and more alone and abandoned, women suffer abuse, exclusion and violence. "Faced with these situations which are contrary to God's will, we Pastors, before the image of the Señor de los Milagros, ask rulers and each of us to act in a concrete way". (SL) (Agenzia Fides 05/11/2014)


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