Peru

"It is time to raise our gaze and move towards encounter and reconciliation with justice. The country must not continue in anxiety, fear and uncertainty," the statement read.

Following his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis decried the violence in Ukraine, Peru, and Myanmar, where a Catholic church was destroyed.

The Bishops of Peru stressed, in a statement published on December 12 on the recent deadly protest, that “Violence is not the solution to crisis or differences. No more violence, no more deaths! Peru must be our priority!”