{"id":1485,"date":"2018-04-05T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:17:08","slug":"venezuelans-lack-communion-wafers-this-easter-so-a-colombian-church-stepped-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/04\/05\/venezuelans-lack-communion-wafers-this-easter-so-a-colombian-church-stepped-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelans lack Communion wafers this Easter, so a Colombian church stepped in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/30\/americas\/colombia-venezuela-communion-wafers-easter-intl\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>Source: The CNN<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">(CNN)<\/cite>With Easter around the corner and Venezuela facing a shortage of Communion wafers, a faith community across the border in Colombia stepped in with a donation of 250,000 of the holy discs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Venezuela&#8217;s devastating food crisis means wheat flour has become a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-grain.com\/articles\/news_home\/World_Grain_News\/2017\/10\/Venezuela_grain_industry_facin.aspx?ID=%7B930C7C89-F2A5-4D94-A6CF-2B202746BCF0%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0rare commodity<\/a>\u00a0in the country. Some churches have run out of the ingredient needed to make the sacramental bread that is central to celebrating the Holy Eucharist throughout the year &#8212; and on Easter Sunday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/international.la-croix.com\/news\/shortage-of-flour-in-venezuela-results-in-lack-of-sacramental-bread\/7095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to local reports<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A priest in the city of M\u00e9rida, in the Andes, told<a href=\"https:\/\/international.la-croix.com\/news\/shortage-of-flour-in-venezuela-results-in-lack-of-sacramental-bread\/7095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Catholic newspaper La Croix\u00a0<\/a>he and fellow ministers have had to &#8220;appeal to churchgoers to take flour to the nuns who make the hosts.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--desktop\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">So, members of the Catholic diocese of C\u00facuta, Colombia, braved heavy rain this week to deliver the wafers over a bridge that connects the two countries &#8220;so that during this time of the Holy Week, (Venezuelans) can celebrate the central mysteries of the Christian faith,&#8221; the community said in a statement on Facebook.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Venezuela&#8217;s economic crisis, fueled by a decline in oil production, shows no signs of improvement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">People are starving because of routine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/21\/americas\/venezuelan-food-crisis-weight-loss\/index.html?iid=EL\">food shortages.<\/a>\u00a0They are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2017\/politics\/state\/venezuela-maduro-crisis\/?iid=EL\">dying in hospitals<\/a>\u00a0because basic medicine and equipment aren&#8217;t available.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/30\/americas\/colombia-venezuela-communion-wafers-easter-intl\/index.html Source: The CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}