{"id":3041,"date":"2020-09-01T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:21:45","slug":"colombian-massacres-scandalous-bishop-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/colombian-massacres-scandalous-bishop-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Massacres &#8220;Scandalous,&#8221; Bishop Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3042 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Colombia-JPIC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Colombia-JPIC.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Colombia-JPIC-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Colombia-JPIC-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After a number of recent massacres in Colombia, Bishop Elkin Fernando \u00c1lvarez Botero, secretary general of the Colombian bishops\u2019 conference, lamented that a &#8220;scandalously painful&#8221; point has been reached in the country. Massacres in August have claimed the lives of 42 people. Of these killings, 28 have taken place in three contiguous departments in the southwest corner of the country bordering the Pacific, and 14 in three departments in the northern half of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The latest massacre occurred August 23 in the municipality of Venecia in the department of Antioquia, where three people were killed, including a minor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe believe that behind these massacres there is a great degradation into violence. We don\u2019t know where it\u2019s coming from and the real causes of this, but we have reached a scandalously painful point for the Colombian people,\u201d the auxiliary bishop of Medell\u00edn said in a statement to ACI Prensa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read the whole story<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/colombian-bishop-on-massacres-weve-reached-a-painfully-scandalous-point-86280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a number of recent massacres in Colombia, Bishop Elkin Fernando \u00c1lvarez Botero, secretary general of the Colombian bishops\u2019 conference, lamented that a &#8220;scandalously painful&#8221; point has been reached in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,28],"tags":[380,171,272,289],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justiceandpeace","category-latest-news","tag-colombia","tag-jpic","tag-justice-peace","tag-justice-and-peace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Colombia-JPIC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}