{"id":329344,"date":"2017-07-14T06:08:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/urgent-message-from-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:07:52","slug":"urgent-message-from-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/urgent-message-from-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Message from Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On July 12th the Venezuelan bishops sent out an \u201curgent message to Catholics and all people of good will.<\/strong>\u201d They ask the government to \u201cretract the proposal of a constituent assembly and allow the elections that are authorized by the Constitution,\u201d and to \u201crecognize the autonomy of the public authorities, abandoning the inhuman repression of those who show dissent, to dismantle armed groups\u201d and free \u201cthe people that were deprived of their freedom for political reasons.\u201d The bishops called upon political leaders to be committed \u201csolely to the people and never to their own self interests,\u201d respecting \u201cthe democratic will of the Venezuelan people.\u201d Moreover, to work at \u201csolving the very serious problems of the people and to allow humanitarian aid to reach those who need it most.\u201d They asked the National Armed Forces to \u201cperform their duty of serving the people with respect and in accordance with the constitution.\u201d They ask educational and cultural institutions to collaborate in \u201cbringing down the walls that divide the country,\u201d encouraging \u201cevery effort in favour of peace and coexistence, based on the law of brotherly love.\u201d The message concludes with an invitation to \u201cour brothers in the faith and other believers, to a <strong>Day of Prayer and Fasting on July 21st<\/strong>, to ask God to bless the efforts of the Venezuelan people in favour of freedom, justice and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 12th the Venezuelan bishops sent out an \u201curgent message to Catholics and all people of good will.\u201d They ask the government to \u201cretract the proposal of a constituent assembly and allow the elections that are authorized by the Constitution,\u201d and to \u201crecognize the autonomy of the public authorities, abandoning the inhuman repression of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}