Vatican diplomat decries attacks against Church in Venezuela

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's representative to the United Nations, has reiterated the Vatican's insistence that Venezuela needs to hold elections, while drawing attention to the attacks Church institutions have suffered from elements affiliated with the regime of President Nicolas Maduro. Priests have been threatened, liturgies have been suffered violence disruptions, Church institutions have been unjustly accused of various offenses, and even some bishops been defamed in public.  More…