Cardinal Luis Cabrera, Archbishop of Guayaquil, expressed his closeness to the “pain and anguish” of the parents of the four burned children identified by the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office, in whose case preventive detention has been requested for 16 soldiers.
“As the Archdiocese of Guayaquil, we want to ratify our closeness to the four young people, victims of violence; and our solidarity with the parents in these moments of pain and anguish,” Cardinal Cabrera told ACI Prensa this January 2.
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“Likewise, as the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference, we have asked all priests to pray for the eternal rest of the four young people on Sunday, January 5, in all Eucharists,” added the archbishop.
Likewise, the cardinal highlighted that the bishops “renew our firm commitment to continue working for peace in our families and in society.”
On December 31, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office reported on his
That day, men dressed in military uniforms kidnapped the brothers José and Ismael Arroyo, and Saúl Arboleda and Steven Medina, all minors between 11 and 15 years old, in the area known as Las Malvinas, a poor neighborhood in the south of Guayaquil.
The Prosecutor’s Office also reported that it has requested the arrest and preventive detention for 16 soldiers who are under investigation, for this case that has shocked all of Ecuador.
According CNN in Spanishon December 25, Judge Tanya Loor accepted a you have a body of the relatives of the four minors and declared their “forced disappearance.” According to the magistrate, the 16 soldiers involved did not comply with the established protocols nor did they request cooperation from the police.
In a statement published by the bishops of Ecuador two days before, the prelates recalled that “no matter where it comes from, whoever is responsible, Ecuador needs the truth and the commitment of all to eradicate the violence that hurts and hurts our present and future”.
“We demand that impunity and oblivion stop being the current practice in our country. Without truth there is no justice and without justice there is no future,” they added then.
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.