The Catholic Church in Quito (Ecuador) launched the solidarity campaign “Quito needs your fraternal heart”, which seeks to help all those affected by the fires in the country’s capital, which left some injured and considerable material damage.
CNN in Spanish reported that the Mayor’s Office of Quito declared an emergency on September 26 in response to the fires that intensified on Tuesday in several parts of the Ecuadorian capital.
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Pabel Muñoz, mayor of Quito, indicated that the Emergency Operations Committee (COE) made the decision to declare the emergency after the recommendation of a technical report. The measure seeks to strengthen coordination between authorities.
Muñoz also said that along with the more than 600 firefighters fighting the fire, 1,600 police officers and 180 members of the army are working for security and to address the emergency.
On September 25, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office announced that it began an investigation to determine the causes of the fires.
According to the newspaper The Trade of EcuadorMayor Quito indicated that, since June 21, more than a thousand fires have been recorded and more than 2,000 hectares are affected.
Along with the more than 100 evacuated families, 44 people have been injured, at least six houses destroyed and the city has been engulfed in smoke.
The solidarity campaign of the Catholic Church in Quito
In your statement On September 26, the Archdiocese of Quito encourages the faithful to collaborate with non-perishable food, taking into account that “all parishes will be the first collection center.
“Once the initial emergency has passed, we need to help in the reconstruction of houses or in the relocation of families,” the text adds.
“We have lived the extraordinary experience of the Eucharistic Congress (from September 8 to 15), whose motto is precisely ‘Fraternity to heal the world’. Let us bring to life what we have heard,” the Archdiocese urged.
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Walter Sanchez 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.