CPAL

Manuel Hurtado, SJ (BOL), offers a personal testimony on faith, justice, and the reality of practical atheism in Bolivia. Drawing on academic and pastoral work, he shares his encounters with people and their questions directed toward Faith that demands Justice. He says: The wound of practical atheism is real, but it can become an opportunity to proclaim a God greater than our inconsistencies: a God who is not offended by being forgotten, but who strives to return by discreet, often invisible paths. Grounded in GC 32, Ignatian spirituality, and liberation theology, he concludes that faith becomes credible only when embodied in practices of justice and care for life.

Venezuelan Amazon communities face severe climate vulnerabilities. In response, the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello launched a project to raise awareness through enhanced communication and community empowerment, helping local groups mitigate and adapt to climate change while resisting external exploitation.

Venezuelan Amazon communities face severe climate vulnerabilities. In response, the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello launched a project to raise awareness through enhanced communication and community empowerment, helping local groups mitigate and adapt to climate change while resisting external exploitation.

Simón Pedro Martínez Jara, Jesuit priest and Director of the Centro de Estudios Paraguayos Padre Antonio Guasch (CEPAG) in Paraguay shares his experience promoting agroecology to care for the common home. Since joining CEPAG in 2022, his mission has focused on supporting agroecological producers, rural women, and youth in vulnerable areas. CEPAG promotes simple and sustainable lifestyles, researches climate change impacts, and promotes sustainable agriculture through initiatives like the MAGIS Youth Encounter and partnerships with universities. Simón views his mission as a gift, allowing him to contribute to environmental care and help local communities create a hope-filled future.

Jesuit killed by paramilitaries with firearms in Tierralta (Colombia). He was a parish priest, rebuilt the church in Tierralta, built a museum and a library for the community and was a human rights defender.

My apostolic experience has been entirely in Latin America. I will first have to learn a lot from many provinces of Africa, in those of Asia Pacific and India, in those of North America, and in those of this Europe in which I must now live.

In this experience I learned that it is essential to listen to the messages of wisdom of the peoples, of the spirituality of the earth, of women as tender resistance in order to continue fighting to proclaim the harmony of good living, feeling the life that brings us closer and protects us.

We are Naty and LuisFer and we invite you to the Caravan for Hospitality for a journey in Latin America. We write you these words from the city of Cúcuta in the border region between Venezuela and Colombia. This border is a meeting place among peoples who share history, wealth, diversity, and conflicts—millions connect here in many different ways.

Among many other things, there I have learned the value of the collective: the certainty that in the work we do in the social sector, it will always be better to work in the plural than in the singular.

The death toll is straightforward, but each victim’s face and name remind us that people are dying, whole families are suffering,