AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We want a country which respects freedom, promotes truth and installs justice”, Catholic Bishops of Colombia say at the 98th plenary assembly

Monday, 7 February 2005

Bogota (Fides Service) - In a message at the end of their 78th plenary assembly, dated 4 February, the Catholic Bishops of Colombia denounce violence which has waged against the people of Colombia for years and a “plot against human life”.
The Bishops say human life must be respected from conception to natural death. They appeal to legislators to use good judgement and responsibility of conscience to block laws allowing attacks on life such as abortion, euthanasia, therapeutic cloning with cells of embryos. They say they will continue to denounce “atrocious crimes, violence from wherever it comes which attacks humble people; forced migration, kidnapping and violation of basic human rights”.
Expressing the feelings of the people the Bishops say they desire a country which “respects freedom, promotes truth, installs justice”. They raise their voices to say the time has come “to silence guns and make sincere efforts for peace. It is time for legislators to define a juridical framework to give the country a law of truth, justice and reparation”. Recalling the Church’s social teaching they exclaim “it is time to reach an humanitarian agreement to free all hostages and start a process of negotiations for peace between the government and the FARC-EP”.
(RA) (Agenzia Fides 7/2/2005 righe 20 parole 237)


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