US EditionUS Christian leaders minister to an anxious diaspora with Venezuela's future in flux
U.S. faith leaders hold vigils and prayers for Venezuelan diaspora amid ongoing legal and political uncertainty after Maduro's capture, with 8 million Venezuelans displaced since 2014.
- On Saturday, U.S. Christian leaders urged prayers for peace as congregations in Doral and Philadelphia held services a day after Maduro's capture.
- Worries over legal status and exile history drove the church response, as Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said about 8 million people fled Venezuela since 2014 via migration routes through Colombia and Panama or humanitarian parole.
- Calling worshippers to prayer, pastors scheduled services and an afternoon vigil; Casa de Venezuela and other nonprofits organized the Philadelphia gathering as a space of reconciliation, Arianne Bracho said.
- Public reaction ranged from street celebrations by community members in the diaspora on Saturday to calm urged by the Catholic bishops' conference , Evangelical Council of Venezuela, and Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski.
- With the church independent at home, Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has offered collaboration with the Trump administration, while recent actions against Cardinal Baltazar Porras highlight risks for Venezuela's Catholic Church as an independent institution.
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The religious leaders who minister to Christians in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States are urging to pray for peace as they attend to congregations shaken by uncertainty and strong emotions following the capture by the United States of the deposed leader Nicolás Maduro. In Venezuela, the initial statements of the Catholic Episcopal Conference and the Evangelical Council of Venezuela were cautious, calling for calm and pat…
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US Christian leaders minister to an anxious diaspora with Venezuela's future in flux
Faith leaders are urging prayers for peace following the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro. In Venezuela, Catholic and evangelical leaders are appealing for calm, while many in the diaspora welcome the change.
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