Juan Grabois has been appointed member of the “social and environmental ministry” of the Vatican

the social leader Juan Grabois was appointed member of the Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, considered the “Social and environmental ministry” of the Holy See, within the framework of which meet the programs of application of the encyclical Laudato si ‘and the commission for the post-pandemic.

Grabois, 37, was proposed as a consultant member by the head of the Dicastery, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, Telam informed Vatican sources. The appointment of the lawyer and head of social movements was approved a few days ago by Pope Francis.

The other members of the Dicastery created by the Pope in 2016 are, for example, the cardinals of Poland Konrad Krajewski and Peru, Pedro Barreto, among the religious, and the laity Renato Lima de Oliveira and Sean Callahan. Vatican social vocation foundations, such as the Popolorum Progressio, focused on Latin America; and John Paul II, in the Sahel.

Turkson had previously appointed Grabois as a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, one of the institutions which, with the signing of the papal decree of August 2016, derived from January 1, 2017 to the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development. The Pope considered that the Dicastery “will be competent in matters of migration, the needy, the sick and the excluded, the marginalized and the victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters, the imprisoned, the unemployed and victims of all forms. of slavery and torture ”.

In 2020, Francis instituted, under the orbit of the Dicastery, the Vatican Covid-19 Commission, responsible for centralizing the Holy See’s programs for the so-called post-pandemic on social, environmental and economic issues.

Telam Agency

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