The Archdiocese of Guayaquil (Ecuador) reported that on December 12, the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 12 babies who died aborted and abandoned were buried.
The funeral Mass at the Peace Park cemetery was presided over by Bishop Cristóbal Kudławiec, Bishop of Daule; and concelebrated by some priests such as Father Juan Marín, parish priest of the San Antonio María Claret church.
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It also had the presence of faithful and representatives of groups such as the Pastoral of the Unborn Child, Proyecto Esperanza and 40 Days for Life.
As reported by the Ecuadorian archdiocesethe burial of these babies took place thanks to the joint work of the Armada Blanca Movement, the Pastoral of the Unborn Child, the Diocese of Daule and the National Police of Ecuador.
Martha Colombo, from Armada Blanca, explains that in 2024, 65 babies were buried; in 2023 to 7; and in 2022 to 95 unborn children.
The “children we buried were found aborted in the streets, who have no father or mother,” after work that was done “in conjunction with the police,” Colombo highlighted.
Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Torres Sarmiento, police officer and head of Legal Medicine of Zone 8, explained that the abandoned babies were not claimed by relatives during the time provided by law – 30 days after death – so they are kept for burial. in Peace Park.
When they were abandoned, according to the terms of the law, he specified, “the legal process continues to be able to give these people a Christian burial,” he added.
After the Mass, Bishop Kudławiec blessed the bodies of the unborn; who were buried next to the place where the image of Mary Mother of Unborn Children is.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.