{"id":67,"date":"2015-11-20T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimission.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-12-14T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:23:12","slug":"bishop-emiliani-urges-honduras-to-lift-itself-out-of-violence-we-must-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/20\/bishop-emiliani-urges-honduras-to-lift-itself-out-of-violence-we-must-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Emiliani urges Honduras to lift itself out of violence: \u201cWe must react\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Comboni Missionaries\u2019 strong presence in Central America has seen them involved in the various crises confronting the region, which has recently been assailed by political conflict and civil violence. San Pedro Sula, Honduras\u2019 northern business capital, is a poignant case study, having been the murder capital of the world for several years now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bishop R\u00f3mulo Emiliani S\u00e1nchez, the auxiliary of San Pedro Sula, has been integral in brokering peace between rival gangs in Honduras.<\/p>\n

On 26 October, Monsignor Emiliani spoke at the 51st<\/sup> anniversary of Honduras\u2019 largest newspaper, “La Prensa”. He praised the journalists for their services to the community in “informing, orienting, and educating” the people of Honduras.<\/p>\n

But he also expressed his distress at the “cult of money” in Honduras, afflicting particularly the country\u2019s youth:<\/p>\n

“So many die because of violence and worship of money, perhaps the worst idolatry of all, the most bloodthirsty god, a monster, calmed only by the shedding of blood. Sadly, most of these dead are young people.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Recent reports have found an average of 16 murders taking place every day on the streets of Honduras. According to Monsignor Emiliani, “there is a constant increase in the number of deaths related to drug trafficking, organised crime, fighting between drug cartels, infighting \u2013 all cases of extremely bloodthirsty violence”.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the Bishop deplores the attitude of those in society who see “a Honduras on its knees, dominated by fear and desperation, where nothing can be done except to say, we must escape! We have to go! Go anywhere, to any other country.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

He ended on a note of hope, appealing to Honduras to lift itself out of violence: \u201cI sincerely believe that Honduras can make it, can stand up, can react. I am firmly convinced that Honduras is capable of reacting positively to this situation.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Comboni Missionaries\u2019 strong presence in Central America has seen them involved in the various crises confronting the region, which has recently been assailed by political conflict and civil violence. San Pedro Sula, Honduras\u2019 northern business capital, is a poignant case study, having been the murder capital of the world for several years now. Bishop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}