“not a single euro of the stolen to the poor, and to put a single brick in that church.” Santiago Agrelo, archbishop emeritus of Tangier, he does not hide his indignation by the decision of the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, of the PP, remove the aid to unaccompanied immigrant minors to dedicate to restore the church of the Carmen, in response to the demands of Vox.
“I don’t know who’s responsibility that the church del Carmen, which the politicians of ceuta aim to restore the stolen money to the poor. I have the certainty that, if it is of the Bishopric of Cadiz and Ceuta, will not allow a single euro of the stolen to the poor serve to put a single brick in that church”, he has written the religious in his page of Facebook.
Argelo refers to an article published by the catholic magazine New Life, under the title “Vox lands in Ceuta for Christmas”, in which he explains that the project of budgets of the city for 2020 sets out the requirements of Vox, whose local spokesperson, Carlos Verdejo, boasts of the “elimination of investments unnecessary” and “the end of the bars”.
Among the items that have been deleted figure the help to the catholic association of Cardinj (in tribute to the belgian priest who founded the young Christian Workers), which, together with the Secretariat for Christian Migration, it manages a network of care to immigrants and the center ceuta San Antonio, which serves migrant children alone.
According to the local spokesperson for Vox, the public aid, which until now were giving to this association and to the other two (Patients without Borders, and Progressive Women) will be earmarked, among other purposes, to the rehabilitation of the Church of the Virgin of Carmen.
Argelo, franciscan and gallego age 77, has been for 12 years bishop of Tangiers (Morocco) and there, as he himself has acknowledged, was face to face with the drama of immigration, being very critical of the way in which it has been managed by part of the Spanish authorities and the moroccan. “It’s not the same to read the Gospel in a cathedral than in a boat,” he confessed.
this is Not the first time that Vox encounters with the Church by their rejection of the immigrants. Santiago Abascal does not hide his animosity toward Pope Francis and Vox aligns increasingly with the sectors most ultramontanos of the catholic hierarchy. This Saturday, the party has convened in Seville a mass to pray for the “aborted children”.
