The delegate of the Colombian Episcopate for Church-State relations, Mons. Héctor Fabio Henao, reiterated the call to armed groups to release the kidnapped people “immediately and without conditions.”
Bishop Henao expressed this call in a video released to the media. He noted that Jubilee 2025 is an occasion for Colombia to take on “the challenge of humanizing prisons,” but also to “insist that people who are in the hands of groups outside the law be released immediately and without conditions.” .
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He pointed out that in this way “freedom and hope” will go hand in hand and will be “the great fruit of this jubilee year 2025.”
The representative of the Colombian Episcopate recalled that when Pope Francis opened the Holy Door in the Roman prison of Rebibbia, he invited us to “remain as a society, united to the bond from which the anchor of hope hangs,” as well as to “bring hope to all persons deprived of liberty in different circumstances.”
The representative of the Episcopate indicated that this call is “very urgent” for Colombia due to the conditions of overcrowding and overcrowding in which “an important part of the population deprived of liberty” lives in prisons and detention centers of the Police.
“It is a call that this jubilee year, the holy year of hope, moves us as a Colombian society to take on the challenge of humanizing prisons, humanizing the detention centers where people deprived of liberty are held,” he expressed.
Eduardo Berdejo
Professional in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru, I have more than 20 years of experience in Catholic digital journalism. As part of ACI Prensa I have been sent to cover Pope Francis’ trips to Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, in addition to the Synodality Synod in the Vatican in 2023.