Sounds Like a Nice Place
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Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya of Buenaventura will perform
blessings throughout his cathedral city Saturday, hoping to counter it's
extreme violence, including kidnappings and murders.
Buenaventura is Colombia's main port on the Pacific, and so is a key point in the international drug trade.
In recent years, Human Rights Watch has said the city's neighborhoods are controlled by “paramilitary successor groups” which engage in extortion and violence.
Bishop Jaramillo had originally shared the idea of performing a blessing on the city from a helicopter. The news has been erroneously reported by some media as an exorcism.
The Bishop of Buenaventura told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish language sister agency, July 10 that the blessing will be done July 13, but not from a helicopter.
“We are going to form a line of vehicles with a firetruck and a statue of Saint Bonaventure. We're going to go to all locations, to the most difficult neighborhoods where people have been killed in recent years,” he explained.
Too bad about the helicopter thing...it would have been AWESOME!
Buenaventura is Colombia's main port on the Pacific, and so is a key point in the international drug trade.
In recent years, Human Rights Watch has said the city's neighborhoods are controlled by “paramilitary successor groups” which engage in extortion and violence.
Bishop Jaramillo had originally shared the idea of performing a blessing on the city from a helicopter. The news has been erroneously reported by some media as an exorcism.
The Bishop of Buenaventura told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish language sister agency, July 10 that the blessing will be done July 13, but not from a helicopter.
“We are going to form a line of vehicles with a firetruck and a statue of Saint Bonaventure. We're going to go to all locations, to the most difficult neighborhoods where people have been killed in recent years,” he explained.
Too bad about the helicopter thing...it would have been AWESOME!
Labels: Colombia
posted by jope @ July 13, 2019
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