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by bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | Abuse prevention, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, Colombia, Colombian bishops, lead, News | 0 |
The bishops’ conference of Colombia approved the new set of guidelines for the protection of minors, a recognition by the prelates of a need for a new perspective, “centered not in discipline but culture of care.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, News | 0 |
Colombia’s bishops are urging voters to make informed decisions and leave their emotions at home as they head to the polls in mid-June to choose a new president.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 23, 2022 | CEPROME, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, Colombia, Colombian bishops, Latin America, lead, News | 0 |
Ilva Myriam Hoyos, former Colombian attorney general for children, adolescents and family, is today the head of the bishops’ working group for the protection of minors.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, News, the pro-life movement | 0 |
Colombia’s bishops expressed “perplexity and deep pain” after the country’s constitutional court decriminalized abortion during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, lead, News, synodality | 0 |
This week, the more than 90 prelates pf the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia held their first meeting of 2022, and discussed the upcoming presidential elections.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, immigrants and refugees, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Thousands of migrants heading to the United States are currently stranded in the Colombian port of Necoclí, as traffic grows along one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 10, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, lead, News, Venezuela, Venezuela bishops | 0 |
Two South American bishops’ conference met this week for their general assemblies
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, Dialogue, lead, News | 0 |
The Catholic Church in Colombia says dialogue efforts between the government and the National Strike Committee (CNP) will resume, despite an announcement on Sunday by the government that the CNP had decided to “unilaterally suspend the dialogue.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, migrants and refugees, News, Venezuela | 0 |
Church groups in Colombia are mobilizing to support thousands of Venezuelan refugees who recently fled a military offensive and are stuck in a remote Colombian border town.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, Crime, News | 0 |
Using guns and dressed as police, a group of thieves broke into the Colombian bishops’ conference headquarters in Bogota and took a safe that contained cash, checkbooks and deeds to bank accounts that the church uses to finance programs for the poor.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, News | 0 |
Bishops in Colombia’s Chocó department are calling for a cease-fire between the Colombian army and rebel groups fighting over drug trafficking routes and illegal gold mines in one of the country’s most remote regions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, Drug cartels, Drug trafficking, Drug violence, News | 0 |
The bishop of a Colombian city that is suffering from a deadly spike in drug violence boarded a firetruck to spray the town’s main street with holy water and help to “cleanse it” of evil.
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