The bishops of Ecuador carry out their 157th Plenary Assembly, from Monday 23 to Friday, June 27, in which they dialogue to deal with “fundamental issues for ecclesial and social life” of the country.
As noted A note From the Episcopate, different issues will be addressed in the Assembly, such as the implementation of the Synod Camino, for which they will listen to a presentation of Mons. Luis Marín de San Martín, Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of the Bishops.
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Other issues will be the work of the Social Pastoral Cáritas, the participation of the Church in Ecuador in the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), the elaboration of the pastoral lines for the period 2025-2033, and “Ecclesial communication in times of crisis, in addition to other current issues”.
The Assembly, a space also for fraternity among bishops, is carried out “in a climate of prayer, listening and dialogue” to be able to “accompany the communities in their challenges.”
To conclude, the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference “reaffirms its mission of being a prophetic voice and hope in the midst of difficulties, and its commitment to walk alongside the Ecuadorian people towards a more just, solidarity and peaceful society.”
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.