
Bolivian Bishops Call on Authorities to Act Against Land Seizures
'...In the face of political and social conflicts in the world,” Catholics “are called not to lose hope for better times,' Bishop Aurelio Pesoa of Beni emphasized in Sunday's homily.
'...In the face of political and social conflicts in the world,” Catholics “are called not to lose hope for better times,' Bishop Aurelio Pesoa of Beni emphasized in Sunday's homily.
The cross with a hammer and sickle, apparently to represent a hope for dialogue between communism and the Church, is a reproduction of another carved during the 1970s by Father Luis Espinal Camps, a Spanish Jesuit a missionary in Bolivia, who was killed in 1980 during the Bolivian dictatorship.
“Christians in particular are bearers of a message of salvation which has the ability to ennoble and to inspire great ideals,’ the Holy Father said in a July 8 address at the Cathedral of La Paz.
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