Peruvian bishops call for 'ethical commitment for Peru'

Published: 2006-02-16

LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- With less than two months to go before the country's general elections, the Peruvian bishops' conference urged candidates, voters and the media to make an "ethical commitment for Peru." In a statement released Feb. 15, the bishops highlighted the country's major problems, including the persistent poverty affecting half the population, economic and cultural inequality, migration, unemployment, corruption, violence, drug trafficking, "attacks on the environment," weak democratic institutions, a shaky legal system, and "ethical relativism." "All the candidates must work for the common good and commit themselves to serving Peru and the Peruvian people," Archbishop Hector Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, president of the bishops' conference, told reporters at a press conference to release the statement. The statement came a day after the leading presidential candidate, Lourdes Flores Nano of the National Unity coalition, announced that if she were elected her government would permit the use of the morning-after pill.

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