Jesús Guerrero/ Reform Agency
Friday, February 10, 2023 | 17:55
Chilpancingo, Guerrero.- Bishops who comprise municipalities of Guerrero, Michoacán and the State of Mexico declared, through a statement, that with the violence that is experienced in these regions it seems that there is a collective kidnapping.
“We have been kidnapped collectively,” they sentenced.
“The situation of insecurity and violence that continues to prevail in the states comprised by our Ecclesiastical Province interprets our efforts to build peace, as it is causing economic, cultural, ethical and political impoverishment,” say the prelates that make up the Ecclesiastical Province of Acapulco.
The proclamation is signed by Bishops Dagoberto Sosa, of Ciudad Altamirano; José de Jesús González Hernández, from Tlapa; and Joel Ocampo, which includes the diocese of the municipalities of Michoacán, Huetamo, San Lucas and Tequicheo, as well as the Mexican demarcations of Tlatlaya, Ametepec, Tejupilco and Luvianos.
The bishops called on the civil authorities not to allow themselves to be trapped by indifference and intimidation and to act firmly and based on the law to avoid impunity for those who seek to subject entire peoples to their individualistic and destructive empire.
“Society, seeing itself unprotected, experiences fatigue, frustration, despair and makes the impulse to flee or defend themselves close,” says the proclamation made by the bishops on the occasion of the World Day of the Sick.
The prelates ask the citizens to recognize and strengthen the regulatory role of civil and military authorities.
