Father Rogelio Cruz says he is willing to travel to Medellin, Colombia to take a course he had requested, but there is no way he will accept the transfer to La Ceja, Antioquía, Colombia. The priest and social activist has accused mining companies of exerting influence to get him out of the country. He said the Salesian authorities are misleading the people in their statement that he had requested the course.
Cruz says that the Inspectoría Salesiana de las Antillas ordered his departure for “a moment of spiritual renovation at the Casa Sacerdotal de La Ceja, Antioquia.”
Cruz says that it is an order to leave without return. “It does not say if I will return. If I go I am throwing myself from a cliff,” he told the press.
Cruz has explained that Art. 68 of the Salesian Order is clear that if he does not go where ordered he will be thrown out of the order.
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El Dia
21 February 2018
