“We as a Church always bet on the defense of life from its conception to natural death,” Cardinal Daniel Sturla of Montevideo, Uruguay, emphasized in his Christmas message, according to a local Spanish-language report.
Church in Latin America prepares for COVID Christmas
Dec 23, 2020 rome bureau chief
In this April 3, 2016 photo, teens pose atop the Montevideo sign at Pocitos Beach, Uruguay. The South American country has a long tradition of secularism, so when the Catholic Church recently proposed erecting a statue of the Virgin Mary in a park next to a popular promenade, a debate erupted over whether religious symbols in public places violate the separation between church and state. (Credit: Matilde Campodonico/AP.)
As Latin America enters the Christmas season, Church leaders are urging reconciliation and solidarity as the region suffers through the COVID-19 pandemic.