Walter Sánchez Silva
Walter Sánchez Silva is a senior writer for ACI Prensa (https://www.aciprensa.com). With more than 15 years of experience, he has reported from important ecclesial events in Europe, Asia and Latin America during the pontificates of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. E-mail: walter@aciprensa.com
Articles by Walter Sánchez Silva
Nineteen attacks on Christians during Holy Week in Spain
May 2, 2022 / 14:57 pmThe Observatory for Religious Freedom in Spain has reported that during Holy Week this year there were 19 attacks against Christians.
Argentine bishops renew commitment to eradicating sex abuse after Bishop Zanchetta's sentencing
Mar 4, 2022 / 15:00 pmThe Argentine Bishops’ Conference expressed Friday its closeness to the victims of Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta, sentenced to prison for sexually abusing seminarians, and renewed their commitment to eradicate these abusive behaviors.
Colombian president, bishops condemn court's decriminalization of abortion
Feb 23, 2022 / 15:00 pmThe president of Colombia, Iván Duque, rejected Tuesday the Constitutional Court’s decision to depenalize abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Colombia's Constitutional Court decriminalizes abortion up to six months
Feb 21, 2022 / 21:08 pmColombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled 5-4 to decriminalize abortion up to six months, or 24 weeks of pregnancy.
This Colombian bishop in a drug trafficking zone receives death threats
Feb 9, 2022 / 17:14 pmSince 2017 Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya has led the Diocese of Buenaventura, centered on one of Colombia’s main seaports. His work announcing the Gospel and denouncing violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime has drawn more than one death threat.
Spanish PM meets with head of country's bishops' conference
Jan 25, 2022 / 17:11 pmSpanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez visited the president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Juan José Omella, on Monday to discuss a series of issues including the registered assets of the Catholic Church.
Priest denounces Spanish Caritas for Christological error
Jan 11, 2022 / 15:51 pmFather Antonio María Domenech Guillén, a priest of the Diocese of Cuenca, harshly criticized Spanish Caritas for writing “nonsense” about Christ on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
Brazil to have a statue of Jesus larger than Christ the Redeemer
Jan 7, 2022 / 15:36 pmA statue of Christ is being built in Brazil that will be larger than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue of Rio de Janeiro.
Archbishop of Lima says Jesus died as a layman and without offering a sacrifice
Dec 26, 2021 / 00:00 amArchbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima, Peru, has yet to clarify remarks he made in a pre-Christmas Mass that contradict the teaching of the Catholic Church about Jesus’ death.
Colombian bishop repudiates shocking abuse of boy at home run by nuns
Dec 23, 2021 / 17:20 pmThe Bishop of Zipaquirá, Colombia, Héctor Cubillos Peña, expressed his “deep pain and his firm repudiation” of the “serious mistreatment” of a 9-year-old boy at a facility administered by the sisters of the Congregation of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Poor.
New placements announced for seminarians after controversial closure of seminary in Argentina
Dec 16, 2021 / 14:34 pmProtests erupted last year when a highly regarded seminary in Argentina was shut down by the Vatican, with little explanation. Now, the seminaries are being reassigned to other seminaries, though many have left, ACI Prensa has found.
Bishops mourn deaths of two police officers killed in terrorist attack at Colombia airport
Dec 15, 2021 / 15:34 pmBishop Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid of the Military Ordinariate of Colombia expressed his sorrow and solidarity following the Dec. 14 terrorist attack that took the lives of two police officers at the Camilo Daza airport in the city of Cúcuta, located on the border with Venezuela.
Costa Rican diocese orders canonical closure of Benedictine monastery
Nov 10, 2021 / 10:24 amThe Diocese of Cartago has ordered the canonical closure of the San José Benedictine Monastery, a diocesan foundation that had functioned ad experimentum for some years.
Pope Francis meets with Sodalitium Christianae Vitae superior general
Nov 4, 2021 / 14:45 pmPope Francis received in a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 30 José David Correa González, superior general of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, an institute of consecrated life that is reforming its constitution under the guidance of Vatican authorities.
Church asks people to vote their conscience in Nicaraguan general election
Oct 25, 2021 / 11:11 amThe Nicaraguan bishops’ conference called Thursday on citizens to act freely and to vote according to their conscience as the country prepares for a general election next month.
Nun released nearly five years after kidnapping in Mali thanks God
Oct 19, 2021 / 16:39 pmSister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, a missionary who was abducted in Mali in February 2017 and held for nearly five years, posted Sunday on Twitter thanking God and all those who made possible her liberation.
Colombian bishop implores ill woman to not be euthanized
Oct 7, 2021 / 18:01 pmThe head of the Colombian bishops’ Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Life on Wednesday addressed a video message to Martha Liria Sepúlveda Campo, a 51-year-old woman who is sick but not terminally so, urging her to desist from her decision to be euthanized.
100 clerics will make bicycle pilgrimage to honor Our Lady in Mexico
Oct 6, 2021 / 14:29 pmA bicycle pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan will be made this week by 100 clerics, the Archdiocese of Guadalajara’s sports ministry has announced.
Mexican Supreme Court invalidates medical conscientious objection law
Sep 21, 2021 / 11:25 amMexico's Supreme Court on Monday invalidated an article of the General Health Law that broadly provided for medical personnel's conscientious objection to participating in treatments, such as abortion.
Argentine archbishop warns president: 'There is little time left' to avoid debacle
Sep 18, 2021 / 06:01 amArchbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández of La Plata warned Argentine president Alberto Fernández Thursday that his priorities, such as abortion, marijuana, euthanasia, and non-binary language, don’t respond to the "profound anguish" of the people.