They formalized the appointment of Juan Grabois as a member of the “social and environmental ministry” of the Vatican

The social leader Juan Grabois it was formalized as member of the Vatican Dicastery for the integral service of 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 was proposed as a consultant member by the head of the Dicastery, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, with whom he has worked for eight years. Your designation, supported by Pope FrancisThis happened a few months ago, but was recently formalized and published in the Pontifical Yearbook.

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 in the Dicastery at the service of integral human development.

“The designación recientemente publicada Facilee marca una continuidad del trabajo en ‘Justicia y Paz’, mainly based in el vínculo con Movimientos Populares del mundo that is expressed in los Encuentros Mundiales de Movimientos Populares y otras actividades, y promoting the agenda of Tierra, Techo and I work», They expressed from the surroundings of Grabois after the publication of the Pontifical Yearbook.

The same sources clarified that the social leader is not an adviser to Pope Francis and that the appointment does not imply any direct working relationship with him. “Grabois did not publicly disclose the designation to avoid harmful use and the usual misinterpretations on the subject”they concluded.

Vatican social foundations work under the orbit of the Dicastery, such as the Popolorum Progressio, focused on Latin America; and John Paul II, in the Sahel.

The Pope then considered that the Dicastery It 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.

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