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Gerardi Murder Suspect Denies Charges Pope Prays Pakistani WORLD NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1998 • PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Gerardi murder suspect denies charges GUATEMALA CITY (CNS) — The m an m urder. Observers believe the brutal killing of accused of murdering Auxiliary Bishop Judge Figueroa rejected a defense Bishop Gerardi is a serious setback for Juan Gerardi Conedera of Guatemala petition for release on bail. the 16-month-old peace process, which City denied the charges and said he was According to defense attorney Mario put an end to 36 years of civil war threatened to confess while in detention. Menchu, his client's “only crime is to between the army and leftist rebels. • “I'm innocent, I don't know anything, I have been drinking for eight days." Bishop Gerardi was a highly respected don't know why they accuse me. ... I Press reports indicate that the case champion of human rights. He was also don't even know who he (Bishop Gerardi) against Vielman, who was originally posi­ the chief architect of a church report, is," 24- four-year old Carlos Enrique tively identified by two witnesses, is far released just two days before his death, Vielman told reporters minutes before from strong. on human rights abuses committed by his first court appearance May 5. Interior Minister Rodolfo Mendoza has army, paramilitary and guerrilla troops Vielman, who has a previous criminal admitted that there are “contradictions" during the civil war. record for rape, assault, and drunk-and- in the evidence. Foreign governments have pressed disorderly conduct, was the first suspect The defense also has an alibi witness, Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu for a arrested in what has become the Josefina Camposeco, the owner of a bar full and speedy murder investigation. country’s biggest-ever murder in the zone where Vielman was arrested. France has already indicated it will investigation. She said the accused spent the whole suspend its aid to Guatemala until the He said that following his arrest April day of the murder drinking and at case is resolved. 30, members of the security forces tried around 10 p.m., fell asleep out on the Bishop Gerardi was beaten to death to pressure him into saying he murdered pavement. with a concrete block in the garage of his Bishop Gerardi. Officials indicated days earlier that parish house between 10 and 10:30 p.m. ; ‘They took me out of the car and put about 150 investigators had been April 26. fne up against a tree and told me that if I assigned to the case, as well as a team of It is still unclear whether one or two didn’t tell the truth they’d kill me ... they experts from the FBI. assailants were involved. 6ven offered me money," he told report­ U.S. Ambassador Donald Planty said Spokesmen for the Guatemalan bish­ ers outside the Guatemala City May 5 that four FBI agents had con­ ops’ conference said they could not take Courtroom. cluded “the first stage" of their investiga­ part in a commission appointed by Arzu "I told them ... kill me, but I don't tions and had returned to the United to investigate the murder, since “we’re an know nothing," he added. States. interested party.” After questioning by first penal court 'We’re participating in the investiga­ Members of the conference were due to CNS photi Judge Isais Figueroa Medina, Vielman tions because of our interest in the suc­ meet in early May to continue discus­ Carlos Enrique Vielman is led down the stairs of the main court was formally indicted for the April 26 cess of the peace process,” Planty said. sions about how to proceed, gg house after his arraignment. Pope prays Pakistani bishop’s struggle will bear fruit FAISALABAD, Pakistan (CNS) Christian convicted of blasphe­ Pakistani bishops' conference, repeatedly misused against get the blasphemy laws dropped “write letters of protest either to — Some 25.000 mourners my, was sentenced to death April presided at the Mass. With him innocent minorities." or amended, but nothing the Pakistan Embassy in your' Attended the funeral of Bishop 27. The site is also where Ayub were Bishop Joseph Coutts of Bishop Coutts, who succeed­ changed. country or directly to the prime John Joseph of Faisalabad amid — the name Masih is used to Hyderabad and Bishop Anthony ed Bishop Joseph in April as Some participants at the minister and president of piessages of sympathy from Pope identify people as Christians — Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, chairman of the Pakistani bish­ synod acted on an appeal by a Pakistan." John Paul II and other promi- had been shot at while awaiting the other two Pakistani bishops ops’ commission for interreli­ fellow synod attendee from Fides, the news agency of the ftent religious and political a court hearing Nov. 6. at the synod. gious dialogue, said the Paki­ Pakistan that sought an end to Congregation for the Evangeli-1 leaders. In Rome, more than 120 In a May 7 statement, the stani members of the synod were the persecution of Christians in zation of Peoples, said it was The mourners, led by 300 Catholics, including bishops and three Pakistani bishops called "still trying to recover from this Pakistan, and especially the clear that the bishop's suicide priests and religious, attended priests at the Synod of Bishops Bishop Joseph’s suicide "a sud­ bombshell, this bolt from out of repeal of blasphemy laws that was a "protest death." the May 10 service at the Fais­ for Asia, took part in a memorial den and cruel extinction of a the blue.” have been used to condemn It quoted an unidentified alabad cathedral, where the late Mass for Bishop Joseph May 8. bright and shining light. He was For 12 years, he said, the several Pakistani Christians to priest as saying that Bishop bishop's body was buried near Archbishop Armando Trindade prepared to offer his life for the bishops and human rights orga­ death, reported UCA News. Joseph "dedicated his mind and the Marian grotto he built, said of Lahore, president of the abolition of the (blasphemy) laws nizations had been struggling to The appeal urged recipients to heart to fighting the blasphemy Father Bashir Francis, the Fais­ laws, and it killed him." alabad Diocese's vicar general. The blasphemy laws. Sections He spoke to UCA News, an Asian C hurch teaching about su icide explained 295-B and -C of the Pakistan church news agency based in Penal Code, were introduced in Thailand. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Two recent Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican fullness of his freedom. Therefore, if he is 1986. Section 295-B makes Earlier, reading Pope John suicides — of a Swiss Guard at the Vati­ spokesman, said the change was in line a victim because his freedom is not fully insulting the Koran. Islam's holy Paul's condolences in Bishop can and of a bishop in Pakistan — with “a greater understanding of human functioning, this act is not morally book, punishable with life Joseph's native village of Kush- prompted questions about Catholic psychology, especially regarding certain imputable,” Navarro-Valls said. imprisonment, while Section. pur, the apostolic nuncio to Church teaching on suicide. illnesses, including very serious forms of The "Catechism of the Catholic 295-C stipulates death or life Pakistan, Archbishop Renzo While the Catholic Church considers depression.” Church" also gives the church's teaching imprisonment for defaming the Fratini, said the pope hopes "the suicide an affront to God, the giver of life, The spokesman, who trained as a on suicide. Prophet Mohammed, founder of struggle for justice and people's and an offense against the bonds of love medical doctor and holds a degree in psy­ “We are the stewards, not owners, of Islam. The country's national rights will bear fruit." and friendship which tie people to one chiatry, said such illnesses could allow the life God has entrusted to us. It is not court of Shariah. Islamic law. ' Bishop Joseph, 65, the first another, in most cases the church avoids someone to appear to function normally, ours to dispose of," the catechism says. has interpreted Section 295-C as native Punjabi priest and bish­ passing moral judgment on a person who but to experience such interior anguish "Suicide contradicts the natural inclina­ requiring a mandatory death op. shot himself to death May 6 felt pushed to such an extreme. “that it seriously places in jeopardy tion of the human being to preserve and sentence for those convicted of putside the court building in For much of this century, the Catholic human freedom and can lead to an act of perpetuate his life." blasphemy against the prophet. Sahiwal. about 300 miles south Church prohibited public funerals and suicide.” While suicide is contrary to love of God The day before killing himself. of Islamabad. Catholic burials for those who committed “Reflection on this has led to the con­ and neighbor, the catechism says, “grave Bishop Joseph wrote that the The bishop, who chaired the suicide. The prohibition was contained in clusion that some forms of suicide can be psychological disturbances, anguish or laws must be repealed "without Pakistani bishops’ justice and the 1917 Code of Canon Law but was considered the result of an illness in grave fear of hardship, suffering or tor­ worrying about the sacrifices we peace commission, killed himself dropped from the new code promulgated which human freedom was seriously ture can diminish the responsibility of shall have to offer: dedicatee) at the site where Ayub Masih, a by Pope John Paul II in 1983. damaged. This person does not have the one committing suicide." Efi persons do not count the cost." A T T E N T I O N PARISHES! "7“ Feed information about your parish t event to the ENTIRE DIOCESE! Advertise in the Pittsburgh Catholic.
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