{"id":36881,"date":"2020-12-02T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:48:42","slug":"virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Ecumenical Presence in the upcoming Election in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven representatives of U.S. Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean churches integrate an international ecumenical delegation to observe virtually the Legislative Elections of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to be held on Sunday, December 6, 2020.\u00a0 Valdir Franca and Christine Neufeldt, Area Coordinators for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A and the United Church in Canada, joined efforts with Catherine Nichols and Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto, from Global Ministries, representing four U.S. and Canada denominations in the virtual observation. From Latin America and the Caribbean, Medardo G\u00f3mez from the Salvadorian Lutheran Synod, Carola Tron from the Evangelical Waldensian Church of River Plate, and Lorenzo Mota King from the Social Services of Dominican Churches also participate in the group as international observers.\u00a0 The initiative responds to the call made by The Evangelical Pentecostal Union of Venezuela, our Global Ministries&#8217; Partner in the country, to accompany them in that process. SURES, a Venezuelan organization for the defense of Human Rights in the country, guides the delegation into a whole new method of being a witness for peace, justice, and reconciliation in Venezuela&#8217;s historical moment.<\/p>\n<p>The group had the opportunity to receive an Informational and Training Meeting on the Venezuelan Election Process on December 1, 2020. The Reverend Gamaliel Lugo, UEPV&#8217;s General Bishop and Bishop Exeario Sosa Ocanto, and Dr. Lucrecia Hern\u00e1ndez, Director of SURES, shared valuable information with the group regarding the electoral process and its tangency with Human Rights as well as the free self-determination of the Venezuelan people. \u00a0The group also agreed to make a joint statement to share its observations of that electoral experience to share with their own churches and ecumenical organizations. Along with this article, I am also sharing two written materials that were part of that Training.<\/p>\n<p>May God accompany our brothers and sisters in Venezuela through this upcoming electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>Read further about the elections in Venezuela:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/legislative_elections_in_venezuela_its_process_and_its_challenges\">Legislative Elections in Venezuela: Its Process and Its Challenges<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/democracy_and_human_rights_legislative_elections_in_venezuela\">Democracy and Human Rights: Legislative Elections in Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven representatives of U.S. Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean churches integrate an international ecumenical delegation to observe virtually the Legislative Elections of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to be held on Sunday, December 6, 2020.\u00a0 Valdir Franca and Christine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"topic":[20237],"region":[20015,20079],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Virtual Ecumenical Presence in the upcoming Election in Venezuela - Global Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virtual Ecumenical Presence in the upcoming Election in Venezuela - Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seven representatives of U.S. Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean churches integrate an international ecumenical delegation to observe virtually the Legislative Elections of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to be held on Sunday, December 6, 2020.\u00a0 Valdir Franca and Christine &hellip; Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-02T21:48:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/\",\"name\":\"Virtual Ecumenical Presence in the upcoming Election in Venezuela - Global Ministries\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-02T21:48:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-02T21:48:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e86214ab32334b01470775df4c9e3fe3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/virtual_ecumenical_presence_in_the_upcoming_election_in_venezuela\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Virtual Ecumenical Presence in the upcoming Election in Venezuela\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\",\"name\":\"Global Ministries\",\"description\":\"Global Ministries is a common missional witness of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. 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