Cardinal Rueda on Miguel Uribe: We can be before a miracle and we expect it

Cardinal Luis José Rueda, archbishop of Bogotá and Primado de Colombia, said that with the slight improvement of Miguel Uribe Turbay, senator and presidential candidate, “we can be facing a miracle.”

“We can be facing a miracle and we expect it. And I praise and bless the Lord for these signs and I think there are many people praying, praying selflessly, from different parts of the country,” said the cardinal in Interview with W Radio This June 11, when asked about the fifth medical part of Uribe Turbay.

Miguel Turbay Uribe, 39, married and father, suffered a serious attack on Saturday, June 7 to the West of Bogotá, when a 15 -year -old teenager shot him in the head. He was taken to a health center of the Santa Fe Foundation, which he informs about his state of health.

On Sunday 8, a great march for peace was held in Bogotá and other cities and in rejection of the attack on Uribe, in which thousands of Colombians participated.

In today’s medical part, the Santa Fe Foundation points out that “in the midst of the severity of its clinical condition there are indications of neurological improvement given by a decrease in cerebral edema”, however “continues in critical condition.”

Cardinal Rueda stressed that when a person suffers as the wife and son of Miguel Uribe, Jesus, the Son of God, approaches her and encourages her. So, when they combine “suffering with hope and love: that is the miracle, the miracle is not magic, the miracle is close love and hope.”

The Virgin Mary intercedes before suffering

The archbishop of Bogotá also stressed that “the Blessed Virgin Mary is a woman who had to accompany the mission of Jesus of Nazareth” and accompanied him “on the cross. She accompanies all her children of humanity, whom she believes and who does not believe.”

“The Virgin accompanies everyone’s pain and hope,” said the purple.

“Life, death, are situations accompanied by the tenderness of a God who never leaves us, and who also tested death so that we also pass,” said the archbishop, in reference to the attacks that occurred on Tuesday, June 10 in the departments of Cauca and Valle del Cauca, which left at least seven dead.

Cardinal Rueda Meeting with President Gustavo Petro

On Tuesday, June 10, around 9:00 at night (local time), the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, received Cardinal Rueda at Casa de Nariño.

The cardinal stressed that in the meeting there was “a respectful dialogue. It was a dialogue where we could talk about the situation of the country and I went there not as a personal dialogue of the archbishop of Bogotá but in the name of all my brothers bishops of Colombia, of the president of the Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Francisco Javier Múnera Correa.”

Rueda highlighted the importance of “that we make some approaches to the heads of the Colombian institutionality to give a message – that is a millimeter in the advance of trust – of the mutual respect of those who are in charge of the institutions of the country so that Colombia can breathe an air that we can rebuild, we can dialogue”.

The commitment of the Bishops of Colombia

The Cardinal also explained that “the Episcopal Conference is committed to generating a meeting space where the President of the Republic will be and those responsible for the different institutional entities of the country to say: we all close rows in order to life and in order to reject all forms of violence in the different places of our territory.”

“I believe that principles like those, life and rejection of violence, have no ideology, have no color. That is ecumenical, that is everyone, Catholics and non -Catholics, those of a political party and another.”

“Here or won all or lose all,” he concluded, “because we are a single family the 50 million Colombians.”