Venezuelan bishop backs effort against guns as beauty queen is buried

Bishop Diego Padron of Caracas was responding to an appeal by Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, who since the Monday night slayings of Monica Spear, an actress and 2004 Miss Venezuela, and former husband Thomas Henry Berry, has launched an effort to reduce firearm ownership. Padron said that clergy members won’t take physical possession of any weapons and that the campaign should be part of a renewed effort for  political reconciliation.“All sectors in the country should reject political exclusion and segregation,” Padron said, a reference to the polarization of political opponents. “Insecurity remains critical.” More...