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What is the campaign?
It is a continental initiative driven by the Latin American and Caribbean Network for a Culture of Care to promote ecclesial practices that protect the dignity and integrity of children, adolescents, and vulnerable persons, thereby consolidating a network for prevention, training, and coordination across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Identity
The "Latin American and Caribbean Network for a Culture of Care" is formed by the teams and commissions for the care and protection of minors and vulnerable adults from the Episcopal Conferences and other ecclesial organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
They share experiences and knowledge to promote a culture and ecclesial practices that protect the dignity and integrity of children, adolescents, and other people in vulnerable situations.
It is a space for coordination and linkage between the Church's prevention commissions and councils; as such, it does not receive reports or address cases directly.
Objectives of the Network
Strategy and planning
Generate and consolidate links between the care and protection commissions that allow for the sharing of practices and knowledge to enrich their work.
Professional Awareness
Raise awareness about the importance of addressing this issue in a professional and coordinated manner.
Certified Training
Raise awareness about the importance of addressing this issue in a professional and coordinated manner.
Preventive Material
Promote the exchange and circulation of material and literature in prevention, case management, and reparation.
Multidisciplinary Research
Enable multidisciplinary research through teams that address the issues from the analysis of reality.
Ecclesial Advisory
Advise various ecclesial instances in seeking ways to receive reports, provide support, and offer reparation to victims.
Episcopal Authorities
From the Culture of Care
Materials and Guidelines
Responsible parties
Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Culture of Care


The Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Culture of Care is made up of bishops and delegates from the offices, commissions, and councils of Episcopal Conferences and other continental ecclesial organizations. It is coordinated by a team chosen during the first meeting held in Chile (2023) composed of representatives from each region and institution.
Currently, the animating team of the network includes:
- Mons. Lizardo Estrada Herrera
General Secretary of Celam - Fr. Eric García
Deputy Secretary General of Celam - Fr. Pedro Brassesco
- Argentina – Network Animator
- Fr. João Ferreira Junior
OFM Cap, Care and Protection Commission of CLAR - Ana Mercedes Arias Pimentel
- Caritas Latin America
- Ana María Celis
Chile – Southern Cone - Raquel Barreto Castro
Paraguay – Southern Cone - Ilva Myriam Hoyos Castañeda
Colombia – Andean countries - Noylí Margot Ríos Manzo
Peru – Andean countries - Victor Chang
Panama – CAMEX - Jimena Pineda Escoto
- Honduras – CAMEX
- Maria Ángela López González
Dominican Republic – Caribbean - Yimel Julián González Gálvez
Cuba – Caribbean
Ongoing training
Multimedia
ADN Celam News: Building a culture of care from Magnifica humanitas
Conversation: The care of multidisciplinary listening teams
Launch of the campaign: "Care unites us"
4th Virtual Discussion: Synodal Contributions to a Culture of Care
3rd Virtual Conversation: Synodal contributions for a culture of care
2.° Virtual Conversation: Synodal contributions for a culture of care
Cycle: Synodal contributions for a culture of care
Sexual abuse in ecclesial context. Analysis of the Chilean case
Discussion on the prevention of sexual abuse in ecclesial contexts – INP Dominican Episcopate
Workshop seminar: Protocols, prevention policies, and codes of conduct in the prevention of abuse against minors and vulnerable individuals – Bolivia
Safe spaces in the Church – Diocese of La Guaira. Venezuela
Diploma in Care and Protection of Girls, Boys, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Persons – (CLAR-Celam)
Training on the culture of care in the Province of Cartagena




