2008 ... Citizenship, human rights and Ecclesiastical Law ... "32 years of the coup d'etat of 1,976" ... military dictatorship ... 
CYCLE YEAR 2008
CONFERENCES - SEMINARS - V th National Forum ...
CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHURCH
Against all discrimination and intolerance
EQUALITY - treatment civil - and FREEDOM Thought, Expression,
Consciousness, Religion and Worship
RESEARCH CENTER, Study and Training ecclesiastical and theological (CIECET), in conjunction with the Fellowship of Christian Leadership (CLC), church organizations and Evangelical Christian Churches (city Rosario and Zoning Surrounding - Santa Fe Province), join in prayer, reflection and awareness, with the company in Argentina, during the 2008 YEAR CYCLE in different activities, which recall the "32 years of the coup d'etat of 1,976" , for a real national reconciliation, justice and Christian forgiveness "... invoking the protection of God the source of all reason and justice ...".
as church organizations, we recommend reading several books related to this issue so special, for example, include:
* "Evangelical and HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARGENTINA (1,976 / 1,998)" - Authors: Paul R. Andiñach / Daniel Bruno - 2001 Ediciones La Aurora - who posed in the introduction "... this book shows the performance of the evangelical churches during the military dictatorship during the period 1976-1983 and the aftermath of democracy to the present (1984-1999), specifically in making the task of complaint against the violation of human rights and the pastoral care of victims of repression and their families ... " and V. Conclusion. Thoughts and assessments "... the course of nearly twenty five years of testimony of the churches in Argentina has left a group of thoughts and tastes that have to be mature in the early years of the next century.
A first observation is that the churches' response to the dictatorship reflected the same polarization that was engulfed Argentina society as a whole. On the one hand, those churches were faced with the government and denounced human rights violations. On the other churches had opted for silence and in some cases approaching the edge of complicity. But we must qualify this observation since we observe that within each church there was the same polarization. There were those who supported the action on behalf of the victims by their own church and other denominations, and those in the church - sometimes in the same congregation, opposed the church's involvement in political issues, arguing that its purpose is to address the spiritual problems of the population or political affinity with the de facto government. This led to not a few unpleasant situations, anger and estrangement between brothers and sisters, questions of pastors and bishops and, in some cases, and in both groups, the abandonment of the church. But this also was a reflection of the divisions, conflicts and troubles within families, in cultural, sports, journalism and others where the virulence and political conflict used to be even stronger.
Second Instead we wish to note that at that Argentina for expressing opposition to government was a risk, some people from different places should be understood that witnessed what they had to live. The churches were not only an exception to this attitude but in more than one time were the only places where, for strategic reasons, it was possible that a voice be heard with a somewhat lower level of risk elsewhere. So who took the unwanted privilege that eventually was not so, as they begin to manifest some developed against them the same repressive apparatus to combat organized an army armed. Bishops, pastors, lay people were persecuted and killed, repressed until silence or forced into exile. It is clear that, when religious institutions had to leave their traditional role and assumed the denunciation of the injustices and abuses, even when they were done by peaceful means in pursuit of dialogue and without access to power, the dictatorship of the identified as part of a social enemy and received the same treatment as violent or guerrilla organizations.
Thirdly, we see that joint action and love the Gospel to be effective required a structure that organizes. Thus began the service-specific legal advice and financial support to families of prisoners and missing. These tasks then went deeper and with the passage of time and the gradual weakening of the military government activities became less clandestine and more diverse. They organized workshops, job clubs, mutual aid groups. Parallel to this the churches do not fail to provide pastoral support to those who necesitan.Son thousands of people physically and materially affected felt empty and alone. They came to the pastors, priests and rabbis for a word to help them carry out the horror situation they were facing. We have said in previous pages that this is the part of the testimony that is not documented in our research, and probably never will, because it corresponds to that area Christian task is not recorded in the minutes, or press mold, or claim bronze monuments.
Then came the era of reconstruction of democracy and with it the creation by the constitutional government of the CONADEP. Argentina society slowly was taking the tragedy of the previous years. He did it with fear and sometimes with little will and that what he had to do was not a feast for the eyes but the horror suspected, the deep blackness of death intuited. And there he heard a humble but firm voice of Jaime de Nevares, Marshall Meyer and Carlos Gattinoni than expressing the feelings of many other ethical blazing for believers of his generation and left behind a model living the faith that was to mark those who succeeded them. They learned to stand amid the contradictions of the policy framework to ensure that the truth be told, and each witness to the horror would be heard and rescued from oblivion.
One last observation. In the words of several respondents in this study emphasized the feeling that what has been driving the whole evangelical Christian action in defense of victims of the illegal repression was more explicit in congregational spaces where many brothers could understand the religious background of commitment to life. He would have won understanding and injuries could have been avoided to some extent even exist today. For where there were those who encouraged their leaders in their commitment to and identified with them, but where there were also those who did not understand what they were doing and why they did, there were breakdowns that hurt the life of the church. You may think that the events were happening very quickly and there was no material or real-time ability to assimilate what happened and hope that mature within always somewhat slow dynamics of the churches. Also there are times when he first act and then says, simply because time to stop and distract theologically justify the need for protection of endangered human life, a child kidnapped of a tortured woman, a young man disappeared, would be an intellectual frivolity then no-no-we forgive ourselves. But in fact failed to take the time to say that word of clarification, explain again what is not understood. Visiting
days and events in thinking raises an immense force that calls for hope. Because the descent into hell that meant opening their eyes to a cruel reality and the courage of those who can look the other way faithful to God decided to tackle the task of shedding light where darkness had already pitched his camp, not least that invite us to look back with gratitude and responsibility
forward ...".
* NO MORE - Report of the National Commission on Disappeared Persons - CONADEP - 2006 EUDEBA - "... Sadly, in pain, we have fulfilled the mission entrusted to us in due course Constitutional President of the Republic. That was very hard work because we had to piece together a dark puzzle, after many years of the events, when deliberately erased all traces, all documentation has been burned and even buildings have been demolished ...
The great calamities are always instructive and, indeed, the most terrible drama that in its history the nation suffered during the military dictatorship that lasted launched in March 1976 will help us understand that only democracy can preserve a people from such horror, that only she can keep and save the sacred and essential rights of the child human. Only then can we be sure that our country never again be repeated tragic events that made us famous in the civilized world ...
Many of the episodes reviewed here are difficult credibility. Is that men and women of our people have known only through such horrors chronic elsewhere.
The enormity of what happened, the transgression of the very foundations of the species that still cause "is it true?" That some tried to escape the pain and horror, but also the responsibility that comes from knowing, of being aware, because it is, inevitably, the question: how to avoid the possible repetition?. And the desperate concern to note that victims and perpetrators were our contemporaries, that the tragedy had on our soil by stage and who thus reproached our history offer no further acts or words of reliable repentance ...
... EDITION OF 30 YEARS OF STROKE STATE ... Our country is witnessing an historic moment in the field of human rights, thirty years after the coup which installed the bloodiest military dictatorship in our history. This exceptional circumstance is the result of the convergence between the political decision of national government, which has made human rights the cornerstone of public policy, and the unyielding demands of truth, justice and memory held by our people throughout the last decades ...
must make it clear - because it requires building the future on firm foundations - that is unacceptable to try to justify State terrorism as a kind of play opposing violence as if it were possible to find a symmetry justifying the action of individuals against the separation of the aims of the Nation and the State waived.
Furthermore, state terrorism was triggered massive and systematic manner by the military junta from 24 March 1976 when there were no strategic security challenges to the status quo, because the guerrillas had been defeated militarily . The dictatorship was proposed to impose a neoliberal economic system and wipe out such social gains of many years, that popular resistance prevented were trampled. The pedagogy of terror became the military coup in lords of life and death of all inhabitants. In applying these policies, in order to avoid the emergence of political and social movements, dictatorship wiped out 30,000 people, according to the national security doctrine in the service of the privilege and interest-national. Discipline society drowning in blood all dissent or disagreement was its stated purpose. Workers, heads of internal committees of factories, trade unionists, journalists, lawyers, psychologists, academics, teachers, students, children, youth, men and women of all ages and social classes were the target. The testimony and documents collected in the NEVER AGAIN is a testimony more valid than ever to this tragedy.
is the responsibility of the constitutional institutions of the Republic on a permanent memorial to this cruel stage in Argentina's history as an exercise in collective memory, in order to teach current and future generations irreparable consequences, entailing the replacement of the of law by the application of unlawful violence by those who hold state power, to prevent forgetfulness is a breeding ground for future repetition.
teaching history is not supported by hatred or the division into opposing sides of the Argentine people, but on the contrary, seeks to unite society behind the banners of justice, truth and memory in defense of human rights, democracy and the republican order.
currently have the huge task ahead to reverse a situation of impunity and social injustice, which requires overcoming the hostility of powerful sectors with the complicity of yesterday and today with the terrorism of state and the neoliberal policies has made it possible . Thus, while the great challenges they challenge us to continue making the Argentina, against such strong resistance, not only a more democratic and less authoritarian, but also equal and equitable. NEVER AGAIN
The State and society must address both Argentina crimes of state terrorism - the disappearance, abduction of children, killings and torture - as the social injustices that are an affront to the dignity human.
The NEVER AGAIN is a vast program to be performed by the national government, the provinces and municipalities and by Argentina society as a whole, if we build a truly integrated nation and a more just and more humane for all.
March 2006 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE NATION .... "
* CHURCH AND DICTATORSHIP - The role of the Church in light of its relations with the military regime - Author: Emilio F. Mignone - 2nd Edition - 2006 Edition of national thought - Colihue - 30 years after the coup - MEMORY, TRUTH AND JUSTICE - Final Edition ... This publication is sponsored by the Human Rights Secretariat of the Nation ...
"... the military process that hit the country was able to succeed and stay thanks to the support or consent of important sectors of society in Argentina. Among them, given their importance, the challenge issued by the Catholic hierarchy. Has this been a unnecessary setback in her performance or otherwise its attitude is clear from the nature of the Church in our country, its relationship with political power, its formation and dominant ideology?.
Dr. Emilio F. Mignone, a Catholic activist life, committed patriot and father of Monica Maria Candelaria, detained-disappeared during the dictatorship crumbles step the Church's complicity with the terrorist state and sheds light on the characteristics that made it possible. In turn, let the testimony of another church, activist, persecuted, the preferential option for the poor, whose members gave their lives to fulfill its commitment ...
reflections and analysis of their way to think Mignone this in the light of past experience, and give this book - translated into several languages \u200b\u200b- the value of a classic, essential reading for today's readers.
This edition includes a foreword by Adolfo Perez Esquivel to the English edition, a foreword by Fr current. Eduardo de la Serna, an appendix written by Dr. Mignone after the first edition and a brief biography of Mario del Carril ... (cover) ...
PROLOGUE 2006. Twenty years of the initial publication of Church and dictatorship. A true classic that presents with rawness and reality "the role of the Church in light of its relations with the military regime." Many things and many people have changed, but today changed ... A Classic Book that-therefore-not be retouched, but it opens doors for others traveling at the same time ... The Church in Argentina, understood as a hierarchy, it is not characterized by openness criteria, or their commitment to the world of the poor. It is said ironically, that together with the Bishops of Mexico and Colombia, "fight" for the podium of "more conservative bishops of Latin America" \u200b\u200b... As a member of the Roman Catholic Church, Mignone writes from pain. Discover pain and suffering the miseries and become victims of cowardice or complicity of those who should have been "give his life for the sheep", and as a member of the Church that is, write to "destroy" but to question, criticize, and confront. And propose and propose the elimination of the military diocese, or Nunciatures, something that I must reiterate my total agreement. Know if some bishops expressed their agreement or disagreement with this work. Know, but I guess. Said by Bishop Gerald Farrell, and that given above, calls to confirm my assumption, publication of texts of the Episcopal Conference to try to show her words pronounced during the dictatorship (insufficient, by the way), and the timid "apology", confirm that the hierarchy-hardly even currently apologize to Emilio Mignone. And worse, we fear that if a similar circumstance unfortunately repeated in our history, probably much of the church hierarchy would act the same way ...
bishops from across Latin America met in Puebla (Mexico) for the III ° meeting of the Latin American Episcopal Council, the Argentine bishops were in an Air Force plane. Really close to power, and so far from evangelical freedom, how could the Argentine bishops apologize to Emilio Mignone?. The new edition of Church and dictatorship can help open hearts review their past and put the means to correct it. Others continue to talk of a "campaign against the Church" (they organized campaign, we would gloss). It is hoped that this work will further open roads, besides those already open, and anyone ever ask for sincere forgiveness, without having spent half a year!. Fr. Eduardo de la Serna - February 2006 ... PREFACE
1987. Between 1976 and 1983, the Argentines live a dreadful martyrdom under a military dictatorship committed to "national security doctrine," a doctrine that engulfed Latin America in terror.
need to do a reading from many angles to understand what happened in Argentina and the impact it had on people's lives: the tactics of terror, repression, detention and enforced disappearance of thousands, including children, prison conditions, economic devastation, social and political life, and everything it meant to a defenseless people who had to go through such torment in order to survive.
This book outlines Emilio Mignone, objectively, the Catholic hierarchy's role in Argentina during the military dictatorship. It is a story of contradictions, denials and complicity. It also shows the role of bishops, priests and lay people whose faith united the people. It also examines the role of dictators who called themselves "Christians" and on behalf of the "Western Christian civilization, perpetrated egregious violations of human rights ...
This book was written by a man of faith lives the spirit of the Gospel. With determination and penalty, undertook the arduous task of researching and compiling the documents, statements and testimony concerning the Church hierarchy in Argentina. But discovered another dimension of the Church, which is a sign of hope: the martyrdom of the victims of the dictatorship who lived his commitment to the poor and the needy ...
Surely there are those who try to discredit this book, claiming it is just a attack on the Church. Nothing could be more erroneous or unjustified. The text is dispassionate and impartial. It was written by someone who is a member of the Church and try to remain part of it, for a Christian who felt compelled to contribute to their analysis, a work of exposition and clarification is this an effort that may help the Catholic Church , and all the readers, to understand the appalling reality of Argentina under the dictatorship, to correct errors and omissions can be remedied, and take steps to not allow this tragedy should never be experienced by others.
is imperative to call into the Church in Argentina, to challenge to think seriously about the commitment of Christians to the historical reality of the lives of his people. I've always said that a Church that does not recognize its martyrs is a church that gives their backs to the Holy Spirit, a Church that does not raise its prophetic voice and not denounce injustices, a Church that does not see the suffering of his people face of God, has lost power and authority to proclaim the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Such a Church must recover your energy in prayer and renewed commitment to, once again, using his prophetic voice and declamatory ...
The Catholic hierarchy had a serious responsibility. If, during the dictatorship, had taken a clear and precise, like his evangelical duty required it, would have saved lives and prevented the Argentine woes. Mignone draws a bilateral convergence, the crime of the dictatorship and the updating of the Church in the church-state dimension, but also clearly delineates the exceptional performance of those bishops and priests who, in their fidelity to the Gospel, were evidence of life: Bishop Jaime de Nevares of Neuquén, Bishop Hesayne Miguel de Viedma, Bishop Jorge Novak of Quilmes, the Capuchin priest Antonio Puigjané. His examples are signs of hope.
This book does not show something distant and strange. It is a lifestyle and a commitment that all Christians and good people should consider with humility. Offers elements to review the attitudes we hold, as Christians and as human beings should consider this with humility. Provides elements which we can revise our attitudes as Christians and as human beings, meet the needs of our people at the same time deepens our ability to be in solidarity with others.
Mignone says so when he writes: In many ways it is a job initiating a path to be followed by further research. I do not intend to issue any definitive judgments. I have in mind the counsel of the Gospel, "Do not judge, lest we be judged." But "Jesus - the translators and commentators say the Bible prohibits Argentina-not form an objective opinion on others, but condemn without appeal, thus usurping the place of God who is judge."
is in this spirit that this book should be read: to verify what was said and done, to correct and restore our guidance and serve as a reflection, behavior and commitment, attitudes as Christians we should take on the historical reality of the lives of our peoples. Only thus can we help the Church take the gospel to the poor, to be more predictive and more Easter as the source of life for all mankind. Adolfo Perez Esquivel - Buenos Aires, September 1987 - Preface to the English edition, Witness to the Truth, translated by Isabel Mignone ...
PROLOGUE 1986. "The word of the Lord came to me in these terms" Prophesy, son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel! You will say to those shepherds: Thus says the breast: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Do the pastors not to feed the sheep? "- Ezekiel, 34, 1-2 ...
Argentina has entered into a healthy debate about what happened in the decade of 1070, to the restoration, a983, the constitutional system. In this exchange can not be outside the role of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy in particular. This is indispensable for the country and the Church needs to develop more and more a domestic public opinion setting out the different approaches to rationality and decorum. Book
try to contribute to this requirement, as my strength and possibilities. I do respond to a need for awareness. No I would stay quiet, as a Catholic Christian, if I had not written. I have gained insights in its pages, documents, testimonies, personal experiences ...
My effort of objectivity does not prevent a legitimate passion for being an active witness and enough of this dark period of life in Argentina. I have tried to reconcile with the objectivity participation, documented and honest opinion, with respect for people and institutions. The reader will tell if I have achieved ...
The desire I have written with clarity and unpretentious. I would not want that saw them bitterness or resentment. I feel indebted to all my fellow non-lender. If I bring placement experiences is not to single, but also to collaborate with society and the Church to which I belong.
I hope, in short, provide a utility with a view to the consolidation of democracy in Argentina and the renewal of the Church.
Buenos Aires, August 4, 1986 .... "
* THE SLAUGHTER OF SAN PATRICIO - Author: Eduardo Mascara - Ediciones Lohlé - Lumen - 2nd Edition - 1995 - ... FOREWORD ... A work difficult but necessary to recover the historical memory of the martyrs of the Church and the Argentine people .
Latin America is a continent fertilized by the seed of life of its martyrs, the testimony of those who raised their voices in defense of life and human dignity of the sons of God, who embraced the cross in the footsteps of Jesus ...
Those who, using violence, tried to silence those voices, intimidate, create fear, not understanding that the Truth and the Spirit of the Gospel can not be silenced, that their cry is growing, that force goes beyond the circumstantial, the mere fact police.
... I think that raising critical awareness and presentation of the life and witness of our martyrs, to help you find the ways that the Gospel tells us right now
difficult ... We must find ways that lead to reconciliation and this requires establishing the necessary steps. Recognition of the damage done, repentance and commitment not to repeat, the right to truth and justice as repairing the damage. The forgiveness that leads to a true reconciliation if we make the offering on the altar. These steps in our country have not been given ...
The book exposes the machinations of those who, seated in power, seeking domination and destruction of all those who oppose and claim the right to life of people and their dignity. A
not giving, namely that, despite However, the silence of pardons, the falsehoods, Jesus never abandons us, that there is power of hope that peace can be achieved through truth and justice ... Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Buenos Aires, 2 November 1989 .... "
During the research process Kimel collected numerous testimonies, investigating oral and written records about the slaughter of parents Pallottines. The personal diary of one of them appears to be an important element in telling the story, and the letters, and journalistic materials at the time. The research gives an account of one of the many massacres committed by the genocidal dictatorship that ruled our country between 1976 and 1983. In turn, highlights the hypocrisy and complicity of the Catholic Church with the military government. Leave it the church two existing projects within the institution, on the one hand, allied with the political, economic and military. And second, the church that embraces the cause of the majority, who works with the poor in a project of liberation of oppressed peoples. That church was expressed from the mid-60s through the Movement of Priests for the Third World, whose figurehead was the father Mugica, also killed by the military in 1974. From this place the monks worked killed.
The killing of five Pallottines was the July 4, 1976, Eduardo Kimel published his book thirteen years after the horror. "The slaughter of St. Patrick" records written testimony, provides data and details, including their expressions journalist with a lack of will and legal inactivity around the judicial clarification of the murders. Given this view, the judge hearing the case, Guillermo Rivarola, we initiated a lawsuit for libel and slander, and civil damages against the author. Since then, the journalist suffered a long judicial process to being convicted in 1999 by the Supreme Court on charges of slander.
national justice upheld the magistrate in a criminal trial that lasted from October 28, 1991 until March 17, 1999, when he was sentenced Eduardo Kimel definitely for the crime of libel. Eight years of litigation forced to go through very difficult Mascara personal and work situations, especially as he was sentenced to one year suspended sentence and pay compensation to the judge, who was in charge of the investigation into the killing of the Pallottines.
Against that conviction, Rimel appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2000 and the international body asked the Court to determine whether the Argentine state violated, with the sentence Rimel, the American Convention on Human Rights, also known as the Pact of San José de Costa Rica.
The court's ruling, issued on 2 May of 2008, in the case "vs Mascara. Argentina, its two most important points to note are that it gives reason to Rimel, and also intimate to Argentina to amend its legislation so as not to be affected the exercise of freedom of expression, in view protection of freedom of expression, the rights of the informer and informed. It is interesting to discuss and learn about some aspects of this failure ...
* Various Authors:
... Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights, the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, Caentro Legal and Social Studies, Amnesty International, New Earth Center, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Organization of American States Americans), Argentina Episcopal Conference, R. Dri, E. Duhalde, C. Giaquinta, M. Hesayne, J. Miguez Bonino, M Moncalvillo, J. Novak, A. Pérez Esquivel, G. Seisdedos, M Verbitsky, E. Zafaroni, among others, and others ...
the CIECET Therefore, the FTC and church organizations proclaim Christian Word of God " in prayer and action for our beloved nation Argentina ... "... Again Jesus spoke, saying, I am the light of the world, he who follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life ... If you abide in My word, you are truly my disciple, and know the truth and the truth shall make you free ... " (John 8:12, 31-32).
Pastor LUQUE CARLOS AGUSTIN AHUBÁN
RESEARCH CENTRE, STUDY and TRAINING ecclesiastical and theological (CIECET)
