Catholic Church in Bolivia calls to make hope in God before the climate of tension

The Archbishop of Santa Cruz (Bolivia) called the community this weekend to have hope placed in God before the moments of tension that the country is experiencing, which is going through a time of serious economic crisis and political confrontation.

In his Sunday homilyMons. René Cesarí referred to the price increases and the lack of response from the authorities.

In the last time, the persistent shortage of reserves in dollars in Bolivia caused fuel shortages, aggravated by a transport unemployment that prevented its distribution.

The economic uncertainty in Bolivia has been for months, and aroused claims of responses to the government, while on the political scene the confrontation between different sectors continues, with a ruling party fragmented by the dispute between the current President Luis Arce and the former president Evo Morales, who will not be a candidate for the general elections of next August for being disabled. For this reason, Morales followers now demand the resignation of Luis Arce.

In that context, the Church has expressed its concern on numerous occasions. Last Thursday, the Episcopal Conference issued a communication in which he recalls that “Bolivia needs unity, not confrontation” so as not to continue “deepening the suffering of the people”, and emphasized “respect for legality, dialogue and institutions.”

To these statements, Mons. Leigue Cesarí added the exhortation to the faithful not to lose confidence in God: “We are not homeless of God. God is there. And only he hopes that we fulfill what he tells us and if so he will also fulfill what we ask him,” he recalled.

Likewise, the Archbishop called on the authorities to be enlightened by the spirit and seek solutions to the problems that affect the population, and stressed that social evils are a consequence of human actions and not of the divine will.