Elevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has kept up his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant in Central America.
Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini, center back, waits for the start of a religious procession, in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Elevated by Pope Francis in 2019 to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Ramazzini has continued his focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant. FILE - Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini receives the red three-cornered biretta hat from Pope Francis inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press in his modest office in Huehuetenango, Ramazzini said experiencing Guatemala’s challenges, from the civil war onward, cemented his commitment to translating faith into action. For most of the 50-plus years since his ordination, Ramazzini has been bishop in San Marcos and then Huehuetenango. These mountainous, predominantly Indigenous regions were hard-hit by Guatemala’s civil war, which only ended in 1996, and have struggled with extreme poverty and drug-trafficking since, pushing hundreds of thousands of local youths
Supporting migrants on both sides of the border is as much a priority for Ramazzini as for his counterpart in the United States,, Texas, who has a shelter literally in the backyard of his diocesan headquarters and chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee. Nonprofits that work in the region, such as Global Refuge and Pop No’j, which focuses on Indigenous groups, say that every hamlet has sent migrants north because of poverty and the allure of U.S. jobs. Staggering smuggling debts mean most of those who are deported only try again, lest they lose the small land plots families put up as collateral and need to grow what little they eat.
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