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Chavez Urges Pope to Apologize
Surely he knows who the pope's advisor is (Henry Kissinger).
THAT IS A SIN! Maybe he will dump the Catholic Church, like he did the World Bank and the IMF.
Chavez Urges Pope to Apologize
Caracas, May 19--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Pope Benedict XVI owes Latin America an apology for saying indigenous people weren't coerced into accepting Catholicism.
Millions of tribal Indians are believed to have died as a result of European colonization backed by the Church, through slaughter, disease or enslavement.
But in a speech to Latin American and Caribbean bishops at the end of a visit to Brazil, the pope said the Church had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Indian leaders in the region were outraged by the comments.
Speaking in a televised speech in Caracas, Chavez referred to the pope's remarks, saying the pontiff was ignoring the "genocide" that followed Christopher Columbus's 1492 landing in the Americas.
"You're terribly mistaken, your holiness, I beg your holiness to offer us an apology because what happened here was genocide,'' Chavez said at an event on freedom of expression.
"With all due respect your Holiness, apologize because there was a real genocide here and, if we were to deny it, we would be denying our very selves."
Chavez, who has expanded the rights of indigenous peoples from the Amazon rainforest to the Caribbean, said he felt he was Indian because Venezuelans are a mix of the European race and indigenous peoples.
source: alalam.ir
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