The Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela & Taking Lent Seriously

On this week’s Just Love episode, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan takes a deeper look at the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and also talks about how younger people are doing for Lent.

Dr. Veronica Zubillaga, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Simon Bolivar down in Caracas, Venezuela. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Dr. Zubillaga talks to Msgr. Sullivan about the growing humanitarian and political crisis in her native Venezuela and what steps need to be taken to solve the crisis in that country.

Kayla Auza is a Sophomore studying International Relations and American Studies at Fordham University. Kayla is also President of Fordham University’s Catholic Relief Services’ Club and shares with our listeners some of the things that she will be doing to challenge herself spiritually this Lent to deepen her relationship to faith, God and others. She also talk about what she and her fellow students are doing this Lent to increase awareness of global solidarity among the Fordham University student body and beyond.

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