Bishops from across Latin America condemned the ongoing violence in Venezuela and called for the church to find ways to provide charity to the South American country amid food shortages that have left thousands hungry.
"We are worried and pained by the deaths, the violence, the lack of the most basic goods, the divisions, the violation of human rights," said Auxiliary Juan Espinoza Jimenez of Morelia, Mexico, secretary general of the Latin America bishops' council, known by its Spanish acronym, CELAM.
