Mass to be given in indigenous languages (fwd)

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	 MASS TO BE GIVEN IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES    		    
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El Universal 
Viernes   24 de febrero    de 2006 
Miami Herald, página 1
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/17128.html

  SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Chiapas - Mexican prelates were reviewing
translations of the texts of the Catholic Mass into four indigenous languages
of the southern state of Chiapas and will send them on to the Vatican for its
approval, Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said.

  The bishops to date have translated the texts of the Mass into Tzotzil,
Tzeltal, Chol and Tojolabal, four main languages of Chiapas that are spoken by
some 1 million of Mexico´s 13 million Indians, said Arizmendi, head of the
Indian Pastoral Mission of the Mexican Episcopate.

  Arizmendi said the Catholic Church must not continue its practice of imposing
Spanish on indigenous communities, adding that it is necessary to bring them the
"word of God" in their own languages.

  The bishop said 56 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico, but "there is
only one approved translation of the Catholic ceremonies into an indigenous
language, and that´s Tarahumara way up in the northern highlands, but it
hasn´t been officially approved by the Vatican."

  He said the Catholic Church has not valued indigenous tongues, contrasting
that neglect with efforts by Protestants to reach out to the indigenous in
Mexico.

  "Protestant brothers have made translations into almost all of the 56
indigenous languages that there are in Mexico, while Catholic Bibles have only
been translated into Tzeltal and another into Tzotzil, but that was in
collaboration with the Protestants," Arizmendi said.

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