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Venezuela is a predominantly Catholic country with a complex history of church-state relations. Catholicism arrived with the Spanish conquest in the 16th century but,...

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September 21, 2008

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Venezuelan Episcopal Conference on the Dangers of the Revolutionary Project

January 9, 2009
Nevertheless, we warn about the danger of trading the constitutional democratic model for an exclusive and exclusionary revolutionary project, promoting by means of power a process of socio-economic, juridical-political, cultural and even religious changes, without the consent of the population. As a consequence, the divisions among Venezuelans have deepened, which has resulted in an unprecedented polarization. Intolerance has produced hatred, fanaticism and violence.