PRAY WITH US for 150,000 Mexicans vanished, that God will:
- Help Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum meet her just campaign commitments. Turn her heart toward the grieving relatives of the 150,000 who have disappeared without a trace. Show the relatives how to seek and find out what happened to them. And in the meantime, preserve and protect those who remain alive.
- Do not let the judicial reform take place until it restores true justice. Help the Catholic bishops to keep pressing and the Congress to respond to their pleas. In this way, bring closure to this great open wound which has been bleeding for decades. And ensure that the guilty repent and make amends before they appear before Your judgment.
- While this search continues, do miracles of recovery like You did for David’s men at Ziklag. You told them, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue” (1 Sam 30:8). And show how great You are in a country that needs a great Healer.
PRAYER ALERT: 150,000 Mexicans Vanished—Will Judicial Reform Recover Them?
In late August, protests all over Mexico arose in demand for the safe return of 150,000 disappeared. Now the ruling party’s bill for judicial reform has reached the Senate, where most expect it will pass. But the Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference stated that it wouldn’t bring the needed justice. Nor did it meet the demands of the grieving loved ones of those disappeared over several decades of violence.
The bill, said Archbishop Gustavo Rodriguez, lacks a “comprehensive review of the judicial system.” Nor does it ensure a “more qualified administration of justice.” Instead, it requires that all 7,000 judges in Mexico stand for election. This sparked protests and criticisms that elections would upset the system of checks and balances. US Ambassador Ken Salazar warned that such a move would threaten US-Mexico relations…
The ruling party President Lopez Obrador has often clashed with judges and claimed they were corrupt. But President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, from the same ruling Moreno party, will take office Oct. 1. Sheinbaum gave in to Catholic demands to sign a peace commitment for more extensive judicial reform. Bishop Ramon Castro said it “expresses the need of a comprehensive reconstruction of justice at all levels. It’s a request from Mexico’s society, especially from victims of widespread criminal violence.” Will she honor this commitment, which helped her get elected?
Another bishop, Javier Acero, joined a group of mothers seeking their disappeared children. Called “Axis of Churches,” they have appealed often to unresponsive government officials. Now he beseeches President-elect Sheinbaum: “I ask this on their behalf: As a mother, listen to these moms.”
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