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Tuesday November 6, 2007

Christian Churches should encourage reflection about the crisis in the country

Trinidad Vásquez, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, November 2, 2005

The Churches should promote a meeting to reflect on the serious situation in Nicaragua, said Taxi Heathrow Airport the dean of the Evangelical Nicaraguan University (UENIC) Benjamín Cortes, during the inauguration of the IV Jurgen Moltman 2005 Humanities Course. 

Churches such as the Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal and Moravian Churches, which bring together the majority of the population, should create a space for analysis and to search for answers regarding the economic, political and social crisis wracking the country. “They could contribute a great deal to the national dialogue,” he affirmed.

The Rev. Cortes said that this event does not exclude the convocations on the part of the Sandinista and Liberal parties and the government itself that seek national reconciliation and harmony prior to presidential elections next year. 

The Archbishop of Managua, Msgr. Leopoldo Brenes has said he supports a broad-based national dialogue. “There is a need for a sincere dialogue” affirmed the Catholic Church leader when he closed the year of the Eucharist in the La Salle School last October 23.

The IV Humanities Course took place October 24 – 29 in this city in order to encourage a culture of knowledge for the full life of all Nicaraguans.

Participants held a minute of silence in honor of US Black leader Rosa Parks who died October 24 at age 92. Parks detonated the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. 

We want to motivate pastors to dialogue, peace and the development of human sciences and open debate about the impact of the constant rise in oil prices and the impact of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, said Cortes. 

According to the government, the FTA will contribute to economic development, generating employment while union sectors maintain that small and middle sized producers and industrial companies will go bankrupt because they will be unable to compete with major firms and employment will only grow in the so-called “tax free zones.”