Juan Grabois was appointed member of the “ministry …

The leader of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), Juan Grabois, was appointed member of the Vatican Dicastery for the integral service of human development, considered as the “social and environmental ministry” of the Holy See, although he made it clear that he is not an adviser to Pope Francis nor does he have a “direct working relationship”.

The 37-year-old lawyer and social movements benchmark has been appointed by Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, with whom he has worked for eight years, and will be in an area that is central to the Laudato si ‘encyclical application programs. and the post-pandemic commission. The designation was then approved by the dad Francisco.

“Grabois did not publicly disclose the designation to avoid harmful use and the usual misinterpretations on the subject”, they explained from their environment.

Under the orbit of the Dicastery work the socially oriented foundations of the Vatican, such as the The program disco, focused on Latin America; and John Paul II, in the Sahel.

Turkson had previously appointed Grabois as consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, one of the institutions which, with the signing of the papal decree of August 2016, is derived from January 1, 2017 in the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development.

The Pope then considered that the Dicastery “will be competent in matters of migration, the needy, the sick and the excluded, the marginalized and victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters, the imprisoned, the unemployed and the 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.

The other members of this zone 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.