North, South American bishops pledge solidarity with Haitian bishops

Published: 2004-02-24

SAN ANTONIO (CNS) -- Bishops from the United States, Latin America and Canada expressed their solidarity with the bishops in Haiti as a rebel uprising threatened to completely destabilize the nation. "Be assured that the people of Haiti are in our prayers," the bishops said in a Feb. 23 statement released during their annual inter-American meeting, held this year in San Antonio. The bishops said they wished to express their solidarity with the Haitian people and church "at this time of special peril." The bishops said, "Every day brings new accounts in our media about the violence that is afflicting Haitian society and causing additional harm to so many Haitian people, already afflicted by intense poverty and other social ills." Attending the San Antonio meeting were bishops from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Canadian bishops' conference and the Latin American bishops' council, known by its Spanish acronym, CELAM.

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