“The hour we are living is extremely serious and particularly decisive at this irreversible turning point in our history,” the Catholic bishops hammered at the very beginning of a communiqué condemning the passivity of the actors in the face of the global crisis that is eating away at the country.
The prelates emphasize that it is the present and the future, in short, the very existence of Haitians as a people and of the country as a nation and a state that are at stake, threatened by the turpitude of political leaders in particular.
They call on them to take courageous decisions that are necessary to save what can be saved in the second month of the year 2022.
“Who will finally stop the descent into hell?”, asks the CEH recalling that the people can not really because tired, exhausted, exhausted by the vicissitudes of Haitian reality.
“It is tired of living in totally alienating, humiliating, inhuman, dehumanizing conditions of life” summarized this structure of the Roman Catholic Church adding that the time is no longer for division, disunity, disagreement, discord, fratricidal struggles for power and the unbridled and shameless pursuit of personal interests selfish and petty.
For the bishops, the time has come for unity, for the union that makes for strength, for the pooling of our ideas and efforts, for a national and patriotic consensus to bring the country out of the deep crisis that persists.
Further on, the members of the CEH believe that it is time to get out of our indifference, our torpor, our fears of each other and to pull ourselves together in a moral, patriotic and civic awakening, before it is too late.
Faced with the dramatic situation in which the country is plunged, the Catholic bishops have once again made an urgent appeal to all the protagonists to find the broadest possible consensus that can lead to a definitive end to the crisis.
They invite and encourage all sectors to resolutely renounce their privileges in order to save the common good and preserve the integrity of the country in danger. They also urge them to work in synergy, so that February 7 will be a day of dialogue, consensus and historic compromise.
In addition, the CEH calls on the responsibility of the leaders so that order, peace, security and respect for life and property are largely restored and consolidated, which is necessary for the triumph of law and justice.
The clergy also addressed the armed groups, particularly the kidnappers who sow violence, fear, death, grief, desolation, distress and despair in Haitian families with impunity.
“We call on them to lay down their arms, renounce violence and kidnapping, and stop shedding the blood of their sisters and brothers,” the statement said.