Peace Agreements with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Pope Francis’ visit, Presidential Elections next May … In this Holy Week, there are plenty of opportunities to pray for the peace efforts of a country that is always seeking to take the path of national reconciliation, after more than fifty years of conflict with the Marxist guerrillas.
“We are in a pivotal period, where peace agreements should begin to be implemented, but there is still much to do, on the government side as Farc,”recognizes Father Lopez.
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Endorsed in November 2016 between President Juan Manuel Santos and the leaders of the extreme left movement, after a widespread consultation rejecting a narrow majority of the process of pacification, they are still far from unanimous.
At the beginning of March, the anti-peace accord right has also come to the top of the Colombian legislative elections (read the benchmarks). Here too, at Saint-François-de-Sales, the question divides. “The Farc have done too much harm to our country, we do not see these agreements a perfect eye,” said Jason and Ingrid, a couple in their thirties, attending the parish for seven months to prepare to the sacraments of confirmation and marriage.