Bolivian bishops call for judicial reform after murders, rapists freed
The bishops of Bolivia are calling for an urgent reform of the justice system, after a series of protests over the release of rapists and murderers rocked the country.
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The bishops of Bolivia are calling for an urgent reform of the justice system, after a series of protests over the release of rapists and murderers rocked the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 13, 2022 | Bolivia, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Religious Freedom | 0 |
Bolivia’s Catholic Church is trying to get a handle on the sexual abuse in the Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 27, 2021 | Associated Press, Bolivia, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, News, US State Department | 0 |
The United States said Saturday that it is concerned about increasingly ″anti-democratic behavior and the politicization of the legal system” in Bolivia following the arrests of officials from the country’s former interim government.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2021 | Bolivia, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, lead, News, President Evo Morales | 0 |
Hours after Bolivia’s former interim president was detained and accused of promoting an alleged coup against her predecessor Evo Morales, the country’s bishops released a statement saying that “the politics of revenge” and a justice system aligned with the ruling political power “do not create confidence in the people.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 16, 2020 | Abortion, Argentina, Bolivia, Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz, Catholic, Chile, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual aabuse, lead, News, Peru | 0 |
Between the Vatican’s McCarrick report and the US presidential elections, much of what’s happened in the rest of the global Church over the past week has gone unnoticed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2020 | Bolivia, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Elections, Evo Morales, lead, News | 0 |
With barely 6 percent of all ballot boxes counted, the party of Evo Morales claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential election, marking a stunning political comeback a year after massive protests in the 2019 elections forced him to resign the presidency and flee the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Bolivia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Elections, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, REPAM | 0 |
Bolivia’s bishops want environmental concerns to play a key role when voters go to the polls to elect a new government in October.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2020 | Bolivia, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, clashes, COVID-19, Evo Morales, lead, News | 0 |
Bolivia’s Catholic bishops have once again offered themselves as mediators in the country’s ongoing clash between the government and sectors of society who still support former president Evo Morales.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2020 | Bolivia, Bolivian bishops, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Political purposes, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Bolivia’s bishops issued an urgent appeal for protesters to remove roadblocks, which have caused fears of shortages of medical supplies and oxygen in highland regions of the South American country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More‘United for Health and for Life’
The post Religious Groups United to Fight Pandemic in Bolivia appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 26, 2020 | Amazon region, Bolivia, Brazil, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Cardinal Pedro Barreto, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, Peru, REPAM, South America, Suriname, Venezuela | 0 |
Church leaders sent a strong message of support to an unprecedented virtual assembly of more than 3,000 indigenous leaders, small farmers, environmental campaigners and women from the nine countries of the Amazon region seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2020 | Bolivia, Church and World, Feature3, News, Scarpellini | 0 |
‘In life, he gave everything for the announcement of the Gospel’
The post Funeral Mass for Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini Celebrated in Bolivia appeared first on ZENIT – English.
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