Posted on 05/08/2022 6:10:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The serious health crisis caused by the Covid 19 pandemic "has also plunged our country into a complex and systemic ethical, economic, social and political crisis, which had already challenged us well before the pandemic, causing structural inequalities to explode that are ingrained in Brazilian society", write the Bishops of Brazil in their message sent at the end of the first phase, held in virtual form from April 25 to 29, of their 59th General Assembly.
"The current situation is very serious. Brazil is not doing well", the bishops denounce, recalling the hunger and food insecurity in the country, which is the "second largest food exporter in the world", the high unemployment and informal work, the exploitation and destruction of the common home, the lack of respect for the rights of peoples indigenous people, the persecution and criminalization of socio-environmental leaders, "the weaknesses of measures to combat environment and disastrous parliamentary projects against the common home". All of this leads to "a latent, explicit and growing violence in our society", in a climate "of tension and violence in which we live, in the countryside and in the cities". "The liberalization and promotion of mining in indigenous and other areas, the flexibility of gun ownership and carrying, the legalization of gambling, the increase in femicide and the marginalization of the poor do not contribute to the civilization of love and violate universal brotherhood".
The Bishops therefore hope that, in the face of this scenario, those in power "promote great and urgent changes, in accordance with the principles and values of the 1988 Constitution". They demand that "the loss of the rights of workers and the poor, who form the majority of the Brazilian people, must not be allowed" and warn against a logic of confrontation "that threatens........
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