After your “Peace Truce” was ignored, the Church asked that in 2025 weapons should fall silent in a wounded society.
The above, through the publisher of From Faithin which he called:
“All social actors, government, businessmen, citizens, academics, religious communities, people who believe and do not believe in God, to Let’s build a year of hope in 2025. Mexico needs it and deserves it (…) Let the weapons fall silent, let the divisions end and let us be artisans of peace and builders of hope.”
You might be interested in: No report of Mexicans on crashed plane in South Korea
This is because, according to the Catholic hierarchy, the beginning of the “Jubilee Year” y 2025:
“It is a huge opportunity for a society hurt by wounds of violence, depression, marginalization and multiple realities that we live.”
This request comes after, in the past 15 days, almost a thousand homicides in the country.
#EDITORIAL We invite all social actors, government, businessmen, citizens, academics, religious communities, people who believe and do not believe in God, to build a year of hope in 2025. 🙏 Mexico needs it and deserves it! #Jubileo2025…
— From faith (@ DesdeLaFeMx) December 29, 2024
The above, according to data from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) which indicate that between December 12 and 27 there were 991 homicides throughout the country, the majority in Guanajuato (129), Sinaloa (80), State of Mexico (79), Baja California (79), Michoacán (55) and Guerrero (33).
According to official data, in that period of time there was a daily average of 66.66 intentional homicides in the country; The days with the most registrations were:
- December 14, 79
- December 18, 76
- December 19, 76
- December 22, 74
On December 4, the Church asked in the voice of monsignor Francisco Javier Acero PérezAuxiliary Bishop of the Primate Archdiocese of Mexico, a “Truce of Peace” in “the name of the Virgin of Guadalupe”:
You might be interested in: Frost in much of Mexico: Find out the weather for today, Sunday
“The proposal is that starting December 12 we can show the world that through the Virgin of Guadalupeand through this deep belief of all the people, we can all make a truce of peace, we can all stop hostile communication and also put down our weapons for a day.”
While the December 25Christmas, “the best news” is given to the world, that in Mexico there are no deaths due to violence.
MC
Related