Venezuelan prelate pleads for urgent distribution of emergency aid

The head of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference has issued a plea to his government to open humanitarian channels to allow the Church’s aid agency Caritas to distribute desperately needed medicines and basic goods. Addressing a gathering of his fellow prelates in Caracas, Archbishop Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez said the ongoing economic crisis in the nation was having a devastating effect on ordinary citizens, where the national currency is now virtually worthless. More…