Pope Francis spoke out on Thursday against any “external intervention” in Venezuela in a video message sent on the occasion of the beatification of Doctor José Gregorio Hernández, in which he asked Venezuelans for “reconciliation” and “unity”. “I ask that, among all of us, we recover this Venezuela in which everyone knows they fit, in which everyone can find a future. And I ask the Lord that no external intervention prevents them from following this path of national unity ”, declared the Argentine pontiff. The Pope’s message, very sensitive to the problems of his region, comes at a difficult time due to tensions with Colombia and clashes with irregular groups on the border between the two countries. Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday renewed their complaints against Colombian President Iván Duque, whom Caracas accuses of supporting the US government in its alleged plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. In his message, the text of which in Spanish was published by the Vatican press office, the Pope recalls the figure of the new blessed, known in almost all of Latin America, for having dedicated his life as a doctor to the poor and the sick. , to whom to suffer, without distinction. The so-called “doctor of the poor”, revered as a saint in Venezuela, will be beatified on Friday in a small ceremony in Caracas due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “I pray, dear brothers and sisters, that the new blessed inspire, in particular, all leaders, all: trade unions, academics, politicians, businessmen, religious, all, university students and others, to work seriously for the realization of an operational unity “, declared the Pope.” Let us seek the way of national unity, and that for the good of Venezuela “, he added. In his message, Francisco reiterates that” the beatification of the Dr Hernández is a special blessing from God for Venezuela, and invites us to convert towards greater solidarity with one another, to produce among all the response of the common good so necessary for the country to be reborn, reborn after the pandemic, in a spirit of reconciliation “, he explained. Francisco has declared on several occasions that he wished to go to Venezuela, recalled” the suffering and the prolonged anguish “of this country, now aggravated by the coronav pandemic irus, as well as “all those who left the country in search of better living conditions”. referring to the millions of Venezuelans who had to emigrate. “I sincerely believe that this moment of national unity, around the figure of the people’s doctor, represents a singular hour for Venezuela, and demands that you go further, that you take concrete measures in favor of unity, without letting yourself be overcome by discouragement, ”he concluded.
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