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The back wall of the sanctuary of Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal Church of Orlando in Pine Hills is lined with the flags of the Hispanic congregation: Puerto Rico, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and Texas.
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Following threats of war by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez against Colombia, the diocesan newspaper in Cucuta, Colombia reported this week on a soccer game for peace, which Colombian and Venezuelan priests will play at a field on the border between the two countries, reports Catholic News Agency.
Bishop Jaime Prieto Amaya of Cucuta said the purpose of the game is to bring together Colombians and Venezuelans, “as sister nations,” to “share in prayer and sport, and in a festive enviro… >>
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Bogotá, Colombia, Nov 13, 2009 / 09:53 pm (CNA).- Following threats of war by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez against Colombia, the diocesan newspaper in Cucuta, Colombia reported this week on a soccer game for peace, which Colombian and Venezuelan priests will play at a field on the border between the two countries.
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Caracas, Venezuela, Sep 8, 2009 / 11:34 am (CNA).- The Venezuelan newspaper Diario de Caracas has published emails that it claims the Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, wrote against the new education law. Cardinal Urosa has responded by categorically denying authorship of the emails, and saying that they were sent from a fake address in order "to discredit me before the Venezuelan people."
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Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 25, 2009 / 06:05 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, has called on Venezuelans to do more than just complain about the new education law canceling all religion classes in state-run schools. Instead, he urged his countrymen to to work against the new laws, pointing to the fact that they can be submitted to a constitutional review through a national referendum.
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AP – Spain’s Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: Don’t kiss the saint.
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Caracas, Venezuela, Jul 13, 2009 / 07:07 pm (CNA).- The vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Roberto Luckert, said last week the Church neither supports nor encourages coups and that he never felt the coup carried out by President Hugo Chavez was justified.
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News of a mysterious radio transmission heard three days after a missionary pilot went down in Venezuela has stirred hope for friends searching for him.
McMinnville resident Bob Edwards, who just returned from searching for Bob Norton, said radio operators in Venezuela told him they had received a weak, six-second transmission from the jungle three days after Mr. Norton’s plane went down. Operators told him they recognized English words and got the general direction of the signal but did not know what was said.
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Caracas, Venezuela, Apr 15, 2009 / 11:16 pm (CNA).- Auxiliary Bishop Jesus Gonzalez Zarate, secretary general of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, denounced the break-in at the bishops’ headquarters on Tuesday. No objects or papers were stolen, but various offices, including that of the bishops’ president, were ransacked.
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LOS ANGELES, March 18 (Compass Direct News) – Having been sentenced to die by leftist rebels for holding Christian worship services in 2006, a pastor in Colombia’s northern department of Arauca took seriously the death threats that guerrillas issued on Friday (March 13), according to Christian support organization Open Doors. The rebels from the National Liberation Army (ELN) phoned a pastor of Ebenezer Church in Saravena at 5:30 a.m., telling him to meet them at a site on the Arauca River at 7 a.m. When the pastor, who requested anonymity, arrived at the landing, the guerrillas took him by canoe to the other side of the river – into Venezuela – then drove him to a guerrilla camp some 40 minutes away. For the next three hours, the rebels warned him that area pastors had three options: cooperate with the revolutionary cause of the guerrillas, leave or die. Although the ELN has been at odds with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Arauca they co-exist without conflict. FARC guerrillas control the southwestern department of Huila, where last November four Christians were killed. Farley Cortés was killed on Nov. 5 in Plumeros village, Hermes Coronado Granado was killed on Nov. 8 in Santana Ramos, and 10 days later a married couple, Dora Lilia Saavedra and Ferney Ledezma were also killed there. Guerrillas seized Saavedra, 40, and the 35-year-old Ledezma from the school where Saavedra taught on Nov. 18, bound them on the floor of an old house and shot them several times. Their pastor, Hernan Camacho, has moved with his family out of the area after receiving death threats. “[The FARC guerrillas] say that we, the evangelical ones, are their worst enemy because we teach the people not to take up weapons,” Pastor Camacho said.
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A Jackson County missionary pilot, his wife andfive others are feared to have met the same fate as hisfather when their plane apparently crashed in a Venezuelanjungle Feb. 16.
Bob Norton, 48, of Bryant “grew up with a missionaryspirit and was carrying on for his dad” Elwin, who waskilled in a plane crash 29 years ago while serving as amissionary pilot in Mexico, said Bob Norton’s mother,Nytta, by phone from her home in Bryant Wednesday.
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Zenit.org ).- Three teargas bombs were thrown at the apostolic nunciature in Caracas, in the seventh attack against this diplomatic see, and the second in less than 15 days.According to a communiqu&ea…
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Caracas, Jan 28, 2009 / 05:45 pm (CNA).- The organization “National Front of Women for a Yes Vote,” led by Venezuela’s Minister for Women’s Affairs, Maria Leon, repeatedly disrupted the offices of the Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela on Monday to demand the bishops support the referendum to allow Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely.
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Caracas, Jan 20, 2009 / 03:08 pm (CNA).- The terrorist group known as "La Piedrita" launched six tear gas canisters inside the Apostolic Nunciature in Venezuela, taking advantage of the lack of security that the Venezuelan government is obligated to provide. The latest attacks were the sixth time the Nunciature has been the target of such attacks.
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The defection of a handful of priests and their formation of the Reformed Catholic Church, a breakaway church openly sympathetic to Mr. Chávez’s government yet oddly allied with conservative Anglicans from Texas, has raised the ire of Roman Catholic leaders in Venezuela. Since its founding in June, the infant church has fueled a fresh debate over the interplay of religion and politics in one of Latin America’s most secular nations. –
The NY Times reports “What they want to do is put an end to the Catholic Church, but they
have not succeeded,” Archbishop Roberto Luckert, one of Mr. Chávez’s
most strident critics in Venezuela’s Roman Catholic hierarchy, said in
a radio broadcast denouncing the new church.
He was scathing in
his criticism of the church. “They get dressed up as priests, conduct
baptisms and confirmations — all paid for by the government — while the
people go hungry,” he said.