{"id":7049,"date":"2020-03-02T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofmjpic.org\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:38:50","slug":"franciscan-led-team-spearheads-fight-against-mines-in-honduran-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofmjpic.org\/en\/franciscan-led-team-spearheads-fight-against-mines-in-honduran-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Franciscan-led team spearheads fight against mines in Honduran province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>GUALACO, Honduras \u2013 In the remote rural swathe known as the Wild West of Honduras, said to be a bandits\u2019 hideout where it is \u201ceasy to get in, tough to get out,\u201d the Church finds itself once again at the forefront of a movement for justice.<\/p>\n<p>Only this time, 45 years after two priests were among a massacre of peasants demanding land and human rights, the focus has a decidedly green hue.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t sell your conscience for 200 lempiras,\u201d (US$9) was the message of Franciscan Father Avelino Verd\u00fao, a leader of the local Franciscan Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation committee, to the population of the neighboring San Esteban municipality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The people are being courted by the representatives of 89 mining concessions that have mushroomed since 2017 in the department of Olancho; the concessions cover almost 5% of Honduras\u2019s largest department. But these are not typical large international mining companies, they are small-scale mines registered mostly by Honduran individuals unknown to the local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Before a November 2019 information meeting in which mining representatives wooed the community of San Esteban, the population reported being offered bribes to support the project to mine barium sulphate, used to produce barium for medical uses and mudflaps on vehicles. But then Father Verdugo, other committee members and representatives of the Tegucigalpa-based Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development, known by its Spanish acronym as CEHPRODEC, presented the other side of the story. And when they left the meeting, they were followed by two vehicles, losing their pursuers only when they drove 85 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs Christians, we are called to promote the values of justice, peace, truth, love and solidarity \u2013 \u2018peace and all good,\u2019\u201d Father Verd\u00fao said. \u201cWe have an ethical and moral responsibility to work against the anti-values of those who damage the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the JPIC committee, this means telling people the truth about mining and its impact.<\/p>\n<p>This article was published on Crux\u00a0on February 16, 2020 by Catholic News Service.\u00a0Read the rest of the story\u00a0on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/church-in-the-americas\/2020\/02\/franciscan-led-team-spearheads-fight-against-mines-in-honduran-province\/\">cruxnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Credit: CNS photo\/Mary Durran.)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.ofmjpic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/14066253_646980318798956_335550840731642244_o.jpg&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christians, we are called to promote the values of justice, peace, truth, love and solidarity \u2013 \u2018peace and all good,\u2019\u201d Father Verdugo said. \u201cWe have an ethical and moral responsibility to work against the anti-values of those who damage the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,520],"tags":[547,545,182,548,55,549,222,228,254],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justicia-climatica-en","category-social-justice","tag-honduras-en","tag-honduras","tag-human-rights","tag-jpic-en","tag-jpic","tag-mineria-en","tag-mineria","tag-mining","tag-ofmjpic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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