Aparecida, Brazil, May 24, 2007 / 09:42 am
The bishops participating in the 5th General Conference of the Latin American Bishops’ Conference are set to vote today on the first draft of a final document.
After spending the week working in sixteen different subcommittees, the drafting committee assembled the submissions of each group and began work on the final document. Some groups worked late into the night on Wednesday.
Archbishop Joao Tempesta of Belem do Para said, “The texts were compared, reviewed and complemented in each of the subcommittees.”
Father David Gutierrez, communications director for CELAM, said after the vote that the bishops would have a chance “to read the document over the weekend and make the suggestions they consider necessary in order to have a final document by May 31st.”