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Thirty years of missionary work in Latin America, thirty years of shared experiences and the reality of poverty and the yearnings of struggle and hope people like the Guatemalan and Mexican are describing the ten chapters of "The Song of the quetzal" , a book of entertaining stories full of vitality, human spirit and agile prose author alguaceño theologian Fernando Bermudez stand before a large audience in the afternoon this past Thursday, February 21, in the hall of the House of Culture of his hometown.
In this solemn event to promote his new job from his neighbors of Alguazas, Bermudez was wrapped with assistance from personalities such as Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Murcia, Francisco López Bermúdez, President and Treasurer of the Association of Murcia International Cooperation "Friends of Guatemala", Juan Antonio Pinar Aráez and Maya Fernandez Cristino, respectively.
As Fernando Bermudez exposed in the Introduction to his latest work "this book (...) collects the cause of Jesus of Nazareth, the cause of the poor, the cause of a new world, which today alternative to live."
"The song of the quetzal. Cry of freedom of a people" is defined by its prologue priest and theologian Benjamin Forcano as "crisp Guatemala biography, which chronicles with popular master what she is, and what we have not ceased to be : the paths of original, beautiful and communal roads of Guatemala and those who have tried to prostitute their dignity (...). But neither may have failed. "
The new editorial work alguaceño theologian, published this past 2012 for the Madrid firm "New Utopia" and also reflected in his almost three hundred pages the pastoral work of the author's wife Maria del Carmen Garcia Soage, takes its title from a bird can never be in captivity and, nesting in the Central American countries to Fernando Bermudez represents "the symbol of freedom for a world dreamed possible."
A long career dedicated to the defense of ethics and values, social commitment and human rights.
"The song of the quetzal. Cry of freedom of a people" is in addition to an extensive and rich bibliographic production embodied in books, newspaper articles and conferences in which the author addresses such key issues of ethics, values ​​and commitment social exemplified by the courageous defense of human rights.
It should be noted that Fernando Bermudez's Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Medical School of Madrid Ramon Lull and Bachelor of Religious Studies and Theology from the Theological Faculty of St. Damasus capital of the Kingdom, Diploma in Human Rights by the High Commissioner United Nations Human Rights and the Inter-American Court, Masters in Bioethics at the Catholic University "San Antonio" in Murcia.
He has served as Professor of Ethics and Spirituality in different Faculties of Theology of Central America where he developed his pastoral work for three decades.
Alguaceño theologian has worked in Latin America in health care with Guatemalan refugees in Chiapas (Mexico), has been coordinator of the Human Rights Program of the Diocese of San Marcos in Guatemala and its Pastoral Education Advisory Council member Pastoral of the Archdiocese of Guatemala City, advisor to the Education Commission of the Bishops' Conference and a member of the San Marcos Departmental Tables for Education Reform and Conflict of Guatemala and of the Board of the National Movement for Human Rights Guatemala.
For his active work in defense of human rights, Bermudez is in possession of the Order also Gerardi Human Rights 2005 "(awarded by the Archbishop of Guatemala) and the title of" Distinguished Citizen Award 2007 "awarded by the Departmental Council Development of San Marcos in Guatemala. since 2008 has the Shield Alguazas villa as well as a place dedicated to his name in his hometown. since the 2011 directed and hosted the weekly program "rising stars" of Alguazas Radio 87.7 FM.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas
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