Conflict in Venezuela: the Church says that Chavez leaders have asked for asylum – 06/05/2019

The Vice President of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV), Bishop Mario Moronta, said that during the last 20 days "Chavismo officials" considered the idea of ​​seeking asylum at the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference. "They touched the doors of the Episcopal Conference 20 days ago to find out if they were entitled to asylum in the event of a fall of the government," he said on Sunday. a Eucharistic celebration.

The bishop of the state of Merida (west of Caracas) also said that "a senior leader has pbaded before some bishops", but that "for logical reasons, they do not say who" . "They went to consult in case a situation contrary to them, if the right to asylum was maintained.The church is open to those who need attention, but we will not be murderers," he said. he warned.

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Moronta claimed that the reason he had revealed this situation was related to the attack perpetrated on the 1st of the month by the Bolivarian National Guard against the Fatima Church of that city, as a result of the escape of 39, a group of opposition protesters. the temple. "That's right, it's possible that in many of our churches people can take refuge Persecuted, our churches have the right of asylum in the whole world, but do not forget that a few years ago, they also had to take refuge in the Church ", he declared.

In this regard, he stressed that the church "must protect all those who are attacked, those who need attention".

"The church will maintain its attitude as always, it has been doing it for 20 centuries, it will not stop doing it now," he said.

In addition, he rejected the attack on the uniform against the church of Fatima and said that what happened "is due not only to a lack of knowledge of the laws, an abuse of power, but also a lack of fear of God ". "A Catholic and non-Catholic Christian, a person who fears God, does not do what was done on May 1, which was a profanation of the temple at the time of Mbad," he said.

Venezuela is going through a serious economic crisis and a political conflict that has worsened in recent days after Juan Guaidó, head of parliament and recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries, led Tuesday, April 30, with opposition Leopoldo Lopez, the insurgency missed a small group of soldiers at the airbase from La Carlota to Caracas.

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The action, according to Guaidó, corresponds to the final phase of "freedom operation" that he activated to concretize Maduro's termination of "the usurpation" to the presidency, so to advance the transitional government and hold free elections. But Maduro denounced it as "a skirmish headed by a coup d'etat" backed by the United States, which was defeated with "the loyalty of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces". Due to the fierce repression, there were five dead and dozens wounded all over the country.

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Source: ANSA