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Cardinal aids in dialogue with Colombian rebels

Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos of Colombia says that he sees a "willingness to be open" on the part of the FARC and ELN Marxist movements with the government.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

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Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos declared on May 4 that he had been in contact via telephone with members of the armed Marxist guerrilla movements ELN (Army of National Liberation) and FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). He said that he sees “willingness to be open” in seeking solutions to the deadly conflict that hgas scourged Colombia for decades.

“We have conversed as Colombians and Christians. This week I had telephone conversations (with ELN and FARC). Despite all of the difficulties; despite that there are still acts of war, there is also willingness to be open, which I have also found in the President Álvaro Uribe” said the cardinal to local radio reporters.

“The time has come for reason to overcome weapons and for weapons to defend reason…I expect much from pacification in Colombia,” explained the cardinal. He added that he trusts that movement can be made towards dialogue between the Colombian government and the rebels that is “sincere, true, a dialogue on concrete matters.” Said the prelate, “There will always be actions that we do not understand; many actions that we deplore, that from the moral point of view of the Catholic faith we reject. But these actions do not totally overshadow the panorama of hope and the horizon of peace.”

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