Priest under attack by loyalists of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for using the pulpit to hold the embattled socialist leader accountable for his people's suffering, ScottSmithAP reports.
In this Feb. 9, 2019 photo, Monsignor Hector Lunar delivers his homily during a Mass in the Dulce Nombre de Jesus church, in the Petare slum of Caracas, Venezuela. Monsignor Hector Lunar, a beloved priest in one of Latin America's largest slums, has fallen under attack by loyalists of President Nicolas Maduro for using the pulpit to hold the embattled socialist leader responsible for suffering among his poor parishioners.
“They have nothing to grasp onto,” Lunar said. “We’re holding firm and pressing forward with this fight, because this country has to change.” One political battleground is at Lunar’s Sweet Name of Jesus church on the edge of Petare, where some 400,000 people live crowded into the thousands of brightly colored cinderblock homes that blanket the Caracas hillsides as far as the eye can see. Notoriously poor and crime-ridden, the shanty town’s residents struggle daily with scarce running water and frequent blackouts.
Maduro welcomed the Vatican emissary, Polish Monsignor George Koovakod, to his Jan. 10 inauguration, marking the start to a second term of a presidency that is widely criticized as illegitimate following an election banning the most popular challengers and political parties. “The Episcopal Conference has been and is very critical of the Maduro government,” said Hugo Perez Hernaiz, a former sociology professor at the Central University in Caracas. “They squarely blame the government, and they are very consistent on that.”
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