Three days after his arrival in Latin America, Pope Francisco keeps silent about the crisis in Venezuela

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Pope Francis addressed priests and seminarians in Panama this Saturday and, three days after his arrival in the region, still does not refer to the crisis in Venezuela, which has had mbadive demonstrations over the past week (during which 26 people died) demanding the exit of Nicolás Maduro's power.

The Argentine pontiff, 82 years offered a mbad to the Catholic religious community of the colonial church Santa María La Antigua of the iconic Casco Viejo in Panama.

There, he acknowledged that the Catholic Church is "hurt for his sin", in a message amid scandals for badual abuse and its concealment.

Alerted by a "lbaditude of hope"Al"see a church hurt for its sin and that so many times he has not heard so much screaming. "

Your calendar will continue later with a visit to the major seminary of San José, an opportunity to talk about the crisis of priestly vocations.

Although Francisco did not speak in public about the controversy surrounding the bad scandal during his stay in Panama, the spokesman of the Holy See reiterated Friday that the pope hoped to solve the problem.concrete measures"fight against this scourge during the extraordinary summit of bishops to be held from 21 to 24 February at the Vatican.

"It will be an unprecedented opportunity to face, as we have said many times …, the problem and to find concrete measures so that when the bishops return from Rome to their diocese, can cope with this plague, this terrible plague, "said the director. interim of the press office of the Holy See, Alessandro Gisotti.

"The holy father"at"in the heart and in the spirit"The need to fight against abuses," insisted Gisotti.

In the late afternoon of this Saturday, Francisco will preside over an outdoor vigil in front of thousands of young people, the penultimate of the five days of his visit to the Isthmus, l '39; one of the most significant events of World Youth Day.

The Pope will again have a mbadive contact with the new generations, especially in Latin America, in the Metro Park, a three-kilometer-long field located between Panama City and Tocumen International Airport.

Jorge Bergoglio hopes that the Church will engage in "welcome, protect (…) and integrate"to emigrants, many of whom are young people who are looking for better living conditions or escape the violence of gangs.

In this line, in a via crucis Friday on the promenade of the Panamanian capital, he openly condemned the attacks against the migrants and identified them as "bad social wearer"

The defense of migrants before outbreaks of xenophobia marked the meeting with the Latin American youth, shaken by the migratory wave that rages in Central America and Venezuela.

On Sunday, Francisco will complete his twenty-sixth trip abroad since his election as pope in 2013, with the Closing Mbad of WYD in Metro Park, renamed Campo San Juan Pablo II.

In 1983, John Paul II spent a day in Panama on a tour of Central America.