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Feb 23, 2021 rome bureau chief
Health care workers wait to receive a dose of Sinopharm s COVID-19 vaccine in Lima, Peru, Feb. 9, 2021. Peru s bishops are indignant that vaccines are being given to VIPs instead of essential workers; one of those who received the vaccine was the papal nuncio. (Credit: CNS photo/Sebastian Castaneda, Reuters.)
As violence, corruption and vaccine scandals continue to shake Latin America, Catholic bishops are calling for people to avoid being “tempted by hatred,” to urge peace and to avoid the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ROME – As violence, corruption and vaccine scandals continue to shake Latin America, Catholic bishops are calling for people to avoid being “tempted by hatred,” to urge peace and to avoid the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic.