In the text, it denounces that for several months non-state armed groups (GANE) have been fighting for territorial control, a reality that has worsened in recent days and has left in its wake “displacements, confinements, restrictions on mobility, food shortages, exploitation of people, threats and murders.”
In that sense, the Catholic Church in Santa Rosa de Osos “categorically regrets and rejects the humanitarian crisis” generated by the clashes and remembers that “the defense and respect for human life is superior to any desire for material order.”
“The only way to build peace is respect for life: ‘Every gap opened in the respect for life constitutes a mine placed on the foundations of human coexistence, healthy democracy and true peace’ “adds the diocese, citing the encyclical The gospel of life.