The Secretary of Communication of the Presidency, announced this morning that the president, Dina Boluarte, met with the Interreligious Council of Peru, to see proposals on the possible solution to the violent protests that are taking place in the country.
This announcement was made known through the dissemination of the official agenda that the president would manage today. The meeting began at the Government Palace at 3:30 in the afternoon.
Laura Vargas, secretary of the Interreligious Council of Peru indicated that “people need to be heard and we as a community of faith are willing to open up those spaces, because we are all Peruvians, no one can be above others, we want them to be stop the violence and let there be justice, we are available to travel wherever necessary, we are going to sit with the people, listen to each other and see the path of peace”.
In addition, he indicated that to trace those paths of peace, they must sit among them and have a previous conversation.
The Archbishop of Ayacucho, Salvador Piñeiro, indicated that they have given Father Luis Humberto Bejar a year to reflect in his country on the discords that he implanted in the church he runs, in Puno, after requesting the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.
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The proposal to seek help in the Interreligious Council of Peru was made by the former president, Francisco Sagasti in RPP. “What I propose is to establish – I would not say a dialogue, because at this moment we are not ready for a dialogue directly – some communication bridges between different points of view in our country. When it is not possible to dialogue directly, especially when there is a multiplicity of points of view, a valid interlocutor is sought who can talk with the different groups”, he specified.
This is where he pointed out that the interlocutors should be the members of this council. “We have a diversity of points of view from the regions and ideologies. Instead of being a polarization, what there is is a kind of atomization of different positions, in which a group is entrenched in its own and does not want to listen to the rest ”, he assured.
Who is on the Interfaith Council?
The Interreligious Council of Peru (Religions for Peace) is made up of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, the National Evangelical Council of Peru, the Union of Evangelical Christian Churches of Peru, the Anglican Church of Peru, the Lutheran Church of Peru, the Evangelical Church Lutheran in Peru, the Methodist Church of Peru, the Evangelical Presbyterian and Reformed Church in Peru.
In addition, the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Jewish Association of Peru, the Islamic Association of Peru, the Bahá’í Community of Peru, the Peruvian Institute of Buddhist Studies, the Sotoshu Zen Community of Peru and the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University Peru.
