{"id":50230,"date":"2017-10-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/10\/07\/bishop-of-ecuador-pope-asks-us-to-change-because-the-world-needs-closeness-and-love\/"},"modified":"2017-10-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T14:00:00","slug":"bishop-of-ecuador-pope-asks-us-to-change-because-the-world-needs-closeness-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/10\/07\/bishop-of-ecuador-pope-asks-us-to-change-because-the-world-needs-closeness-and-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of Ecuador: Pope asks us to change, because the world needs closeness and love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After their <strong>\u201cad limina\u201d visit in Rome<\/strong> last week, the bishops from Ecuador are returning to their country with a mission that Pope Francis presented to them: <strong>to be closer to the people<\/strong>, and do it in a new way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSGR. REN\u00c9 COBA<br \/>\nSecretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cThe revolution of tenderness. More so than words, his gestures are what moves us to say, \u2018Try to be close.\u2019 The world needs that: heart, closeness, affection. It also needs a deep change of structures and minds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Ren\u00e9 Coba, Latin America is still '<strong>the continent of hope<\/strong>,' as John Paul II called it. However, he regrets that it continues to suffer from problems like <strong>corruption<\/strong>. In order to fix this, he proposes the following solution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSGR. REN\u00c9 COBA<br \/>\nSecretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cWe need to put to the Gospel into action; to show that we are Christians. In the temple, but most of all in the street, in social activity and political activity. How can the continent of hope be the one with the most corruption? We all need to convert ourselves and, above all, become believable through life, through works.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ecuador is one of the countries in Latin America with the <strong>highest number of Christians<\/strong>, reaching over 80 percent. However, Monsignor Coba explains that the challenge facing the Church on their continent now is for believers <strong>to live out the faith by conviction<\/strong>, and not by cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 7, 2017. Ren\u00e9 Coba and the other bishops from Ecuador visited the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3_ETOhxnho4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bobisposecuadoreng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bobisposecuadorint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}