Nicaraguans are called to build a better future for the country today

Trinidad Vásquez, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, September 27, 2005

Nicaragua needs something better and we are all called to construct a better future, said Taxi Heathrow Airport diverse Evangelical organizations in the country that called on the people, Christians, the government and all State powers to join efforts to bring Nicaragua out of its current state of prostration.

The Pastoral Letter "For a Better Homeland" read September 25 during a World Bible Day celebration that brought together 20,000 Evangelicals in the Plaza de la Fe made an urgent call to authorities that work to benefit the nation to "do the duty for which they were elected."

The letter was signed by the National Council of Evangelical Pastors, the Bible society, the Nicaraguan Evangelical Alliance and the Nicaraguan Cultural Association.

"We are concerned about the deterioration in the quality of the life of our people, the lack of employment, the lack of adequate medical attention in hospitals, the hunger that thousands of Nicaraguans face," said the text that also alludes to growing illiteracy, rising cost of services, frozen salaries and the rising cost of the basic family food basket.

It specified that the situation is reaching a breaking point for the people. "There are things that the people cannot withstand and it is manifested in our churches on a daily basis," it said.

"The eyes of the world have observed the sad walk of our homeland, that rather than the dream of a great homeland our universal poet Ruben Dario referred to, we have a homeland where intrigue and violence are part of daily life," it said.

The World Bible Day was celebrated in all the municipalities in the country, commemorating the 436 years since the Bible was first translated to Spanish. The religious celebration mobilized thousands of Evangelicals in marches and days of prayer.

The most significant concentration took place in the Plaza de la Fe, where the mayor of Managua, Dionisio Marenco, announced that the city would build a monument to commemorate the World Bible Day and promised it would be built during his mandate.

Pastor Omar Duarte lifted his prayers so that God would extend His hands over authorities and citizens to allow them to overcome the political, economic and moral crisis that county is currently confronting.

Pastor Cesar Augusto Marenco, who preached during the event, said that the Bible must transform the lives of the believers, while the Pastor and president of the Evangelical Alliance of Nicaragua Mauricio Fonseca said that men have lost their fear of Jehovah and must seek a change in attitude.

Pastor Jose Luis Rodríguez, in the city of Jinotega, 160 kilometers north of Managua, said that act was a demonstration of the unity and strength of the people so that politicians take the Evangelical Church into account when passing laws.