Cardinal Carlos Castillo (75), Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru, explained why he had to be hospitalized yesterday in the city of Iquitos, in the country’s jungle.
As reported Canal Non October 2, Purpurado was taken to the Ana Sthall clinic, after suffering a “decompensation” during the second day of the Amazon Summit of Water.
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The cardinal was taken into ambulance to the medical center and although some alarm was generated among the summit attendees, the Archbishopric of Lima reported that Lima’s purple was out of danger and was under observation in the health center.
In an audio published last night on the networks of the Archbishopric of LimaCardinal Castillo himself explained what happened to him, but not before thanking the signs of love and concern for his health.
“It was a low pressure that joined the combination, on the previous night, of the local drinks that we have here, which are very good. Well and together with that in the morning I took the pill I take for the pressure and then lowered me more than the account and that is what was caused, a tidal situation,” Castillo said.
The purple said that he lay down in “the floor to calm me because he was dizzy and better called the ambulance and took me to the clinic. Thank God everything has gone very well” and it has been a situation “only temporary, it is one thing that happens when one goes down the pressure by some factors.”
The cardinal indicated that this Friday he returned to Lima and thanked the Augustinian priests who welcomed him in Iquitos.
The Amazon Summit of Water
On the Amazon Summit of Water, which is held in Iquitos between October 1 and 3, Castillo said that it has been a “precious encounter” organized “by the apostolic vicariatic of Iquitos,” to see precisely that problem so serious that it is both the lack of water and the pollution of water. “
“It has been a very interesting encounter with the participation of all the friends of the indigenous communities, of the peasants, of the pastorals, very nice, there have been more than 400 people,” those who have attended.
The Peruvian Episcopal Conference He informed that the event has had as a motto “We are water, we are life, we are hope” and also had the organization of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), the Amazon Center for Anthropology and Practical Application (CAAAP), the Panamaneous Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM).
It also had the support of Adveniat, Misereor, the Laudato Si ‘movement, the Churches and Mining Network, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other organizations.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.