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 Sunday, U.S. Christian leaders urged prayers for peace as they ministered to the Venezuelan diaspora in Doral, Florida, and at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, a day after Nicolás Maduro's capture.
- Worries over legal status and exile history drove the church response, with Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski noting anxiousness about Venezuela’s future and about 8 million people fleeing since 2014 via Colombia, Panama, or humanitarian parole.
- Casa de Venezuela and other nonprofits organized the Philadelphia gathering as a space of reconciliation, Arianne Bracho said, while Rev. Israel Mago and Rev. Frank López led services and called for vigils to support a congregation of more than 3,000 members.
- Public reaction ranged from street celebrations by community members in the diaspora on Saturday to calm urged by the Catholic bishops' conference and Evangelical Council of Venezuela, while Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski hopes for church improvement.
- With the church remaining an independent voice, Wenski said he hopes conditions for the Catholic Church in Venezuela improve now that Maduro has been captured, amid recent risks to Cardinal Baltazar Porras.
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(RNS) — Four days after the raid that extracted the Venezuelan leader and his wife and brought them to face federal charges in New York, nearly every mainline Protestant group has condemned the US actions.
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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