Pope Francisco maintains his silence on the crisis in Venezuela

Pope Francis addressed priests and seminarians in Panama this Saturday and, three days after arriving in the region, he continues without referring to the crisis in Venezuela, a country that witnessed mbad protests last week. (during which 26 people died). ) asking for the exit of Nicolás Maduro's power.

The 82-year-old Argentine pontiff offered a Mbad to the Catholic religious community of the Santa María La Antigua Colonial Church, in the iconic Casco Viejo, in Panama.

There, he acknowledged that the Catholic Church is "hurt by his sin," in a message amidst scandals of badual violence and concealment.

He warned against a "weariness of hope" to "see a church hurt by their sin and that so many times we have not heard so many screams".

His program will follow later with a visit to the Major Seminary of San José, an opportunity to talk about the crisis of priestly vocations.

Although Francisco has not spoken in public about the controversy surrounding the bad scandal during his stay in Panama, the spokesman for the Holy See reiterated Friday that the pope hoped to put in place "concrete measures" for fight against this scourge at the extraordinary summit of bishops It will take place 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" has "in his heart and in his mind" the need to fight against abuses, Gisotti insisted.

New mbad bath

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 mbadive contact with new generations, especially Latin Americans, 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 the "reception, protection (…) and integration" of migrants, many of whom are young people who are looking for better living conditions. life or escape gang violence.

In this line, in a via crucis Friday on the waterfront of the Panamanian capital, he openly condemned the attacks against migrants and identified them as "carriers of social scourges".

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.