00:00Churches in Honduras are regaining the power they lost under Xiomara Castro, who championed
00:06a regular state and respect for human rights, especially women's rights.
00:11Expo say the conservative's rights to power represents a setback.
00:15Gerardo Torres-Elaya reports.
00:17The anti-abortion movement's flag at the Presidency of the National Congress, the mandatory Bible
00:23reading in the public education system, and the presence of pastors and priests in all
00:28state events are just some of the most evident symbols of the return to a religious state
00:33logic in Honduras, with the arrival of the nationalists to power.
00:43What we see from the churches is an attempt to reinstate a neo-Christian regime, where
00:49there is a union between church and state, religious and political power, and new spaces
00:54are opening up, especially when we have a highly discredited political class that needs
00:59diverse sectors to legitimize itself, making its closeness to religious sectors all the
01:06more logical.
01:10In the recent past, a direct relationship has already been shown between the increase in
01:16political power of these religious and conservative sectors, and a reduction in women's rights,
01:22and greater disrespect for human rights.
01:28This is a very serious setback to the women's and feminist movement.
01:35Because it represents a reduction in the fundamental rights of women and girls in the country, impacting
01:40women's bodies, women's autonomy, and the fundamental rights that every state must guarantee to
01:48women and girls in the country.
01:53Recently, in the audios presented by the Honduras Gate investigation by Canal Red, former Honduran
02:00President Juan Hernandez can be heard talking about the key role of the churches.
02:07We need to do something more important, which is to bring all the churches together so they
02:12will support us.
02:14The churches are working to make people forget the past, and believe that it was the left
02:19that did that.
02:25It works by legitimizing a government that unfortunately did not come to power through democratic means.
02:34But as all the people of Honduras know, it was imposed from the north, and unfortunately,
02:45it appears that the churches are in common agreement, and there are hidden agreements between the
02:52north and the government of Israel, so that these policies influence these Latin American governments
03:03and mainly Honduras.
03:08According to the Honduran Constitution, the country is a secular state, but with the return
03:13of the National Party, the religious leaders seem to have recovered the power they had during
03:18Juan Orlando Hernandez's administration.
03:20In reality, the clerical state is running things again.
03:23For TeleStory in English, from Tegustigalpa, Honduras, Gerardo Torres Zelaya.
03:27For TeleStory in English, there is also a club that is taught forello for a year because of what there
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