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Haiti’s bishops deplore ‘barbarism’ into which nation has fallen
July 25, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In a July 23 statement, the bishops of the Caribbean nation of Haiti deplored current conditions there.
The bishops described Haiti as “a failing state that no longer ensures security, justice, or the minimum subsistence for its people; a fragmented territory, abandoned to the law of arms and the terror of armed gangs; a population on the run, displaced, humiliated, impoverished, wounded in its flesh and soul.”
They added:
No one is exempt from the atrocities committed by armed gangs; no place or symbol is spared: places of worship are desecrated, sanctuaries are violated and ransacked, the country’s historical and cultural heritage is vandalized, burned down.
“We denounce these acts of barbarism; they are the sign of a people that is losing the sense of God, and, with him, the sense of man,” they continued. “Above all, why do the State Authorities not make their greatest effort to protect what remains of our territory and what should be inviolable, namely: life, freedom, culture and memory?”
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