Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 15, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The Bishops’ Conference of Mexico has announced the launching of a campaign to encourage Mexicans to vote in the upcoming elections in 2006.
The campaign, called “Faith and Politics,” aims to raise awareness among Mexicans of the importance of participating in the democratic process “for the common good in justice and peace.”
Archbishop Sergio Obeso Rivera of Xalapa, president of the Bishops’ Committee on Social Issues, explained that the Church in Mexico cannot “tell our people which candidate or party they must vote for, but we do feel obliged to enunciate a general criteria so that each person can consider and evaluate it, leaving the ultimate decision, and I insist on this point, on who to vote for up to the individual.”