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Dear Rev Fathers
and Brothers
Greetings from
Argentina. I too was one of the participants of the
International La Salette Workshop of Justice and Peace in Codoba,
Argentina from June 07 upto June 17, 2011.
It was held in a retreat house in the center of the Cordoba City. There
were 15 participants: Fr Tony Abuan from
Philippines,
myself from
India, Fr
Marcel from
France, Fr
Meme from
Madagascar (working in
washington, USA), Fr Edgar and Fr Pedro from
Brazil, Fr
Norman Farland from the US, Fr Dennis Loomis as the
Superior General, and the rest were from Argentina - Norman Butler, Fr
Alfredo Velarde, Fr James Weeks, Fr Fernando, Fr David, Bro Pedro and
Bro Moises.
There were talks by professional sociologists from the University of
Buenos Aires, lawyers and a Judge on Human Rights
movement, there were sharings by victims of the military tyranny time of
Argentina, and there were visits to the concentration camps in Argentina
where Fr Alfredo Velarde was detained for 40 days and Fr James weeks for
some days. There were sharings among the participants about the problems
of justice in the countries of the participants, in the places of
ministries of the participants, and the ministries towards the cause of
justice in various provinces. It was a very enriching workshop.
There are 3
proposals on the question of justice and peace were made by the the participants
unanimously and forwarded to the incoming general chapter of the
congregation.
Fr Jacob Thomas Vettathu, MS
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