"Even I, as Bishop of Ayacucho, work as a missionary. In my diocese, in my territory, I have to go and evangelize, because there are areas that are difficult to reach, for geographical difficulties and distances. The people of these places have heard little of Jesus and the Gospel, and yet many need this message, because in their hearts wounds of violence are still alive."

"Lent is a time to confirm our faith in the Lord Jesus and our determination to announce his mystery of salvation with new zeal. Heed God's Word, to learn the truth of man, where we come from, where we are going and what we must do to be happy and obtain salvation. May the liturgical and ascetic season of Lent help us to open our hearts to the loving mercy of the Lord Jesus who forgives, reconciles, enhances and makes us more worthy."

"Peruvians want and need peace, work and unity... to seek social peace and help to overcome the difficult conditions of the country."

"Pastoral work demands time, catechesis, accompaniment. Now when I travel through the prelature of Juli I realise the need for evangelisation to make Christ and the beauty of the Christian life known. We must evangelise with perseverance."

"We must therefore fulfill the obligation of being aware of a world which continues to ignore with a guilty conscience the Law of God, and which is based on human laws imposed by those who hold the power of economic strength. It is up to the latter to give up these interests."

"In Jesus Christ, God not only speaks to man but also seeks him. God and man meet in Christ. The Church is the servant and mediator of this encounter so that man may live. The joyful, firm proclamation of Christ's Good News is therefore essential, since no other name is given to men to ensure salvation."

"The pandemic has certainly brought more poverty. There are people who have lost not only their loved ones, but have lost work (and) closed business. One has to confront this situation. Certainly it's a call for governments and the church."

"We are concerned that this attack on the family is happening in Catholic Spain. It is sad and concerning that the government has let itself be influenced by populism without considering the consequences of this law in Spain and elsewhere, including Latin America where Spain has considerable impact and from where Latin America received the faith."

"Through Jesus Christ, God not only speaks to humanity, but he also seeks us. In Christ, there is the encounter of God and humanity. By such, the expediency of presenting Christ to the world, all-richness and gift of God, to humanity. The Church on our Continent must be the servant and mediatrix of this encounter through which mankind lives."

"Dialogue is the only way to resolve differences in these difficult moments. I appeal to my brothers in Celendín to stop the violence and favor dialogue."

"You have to have a sense of humor. That's the story of my life. As an engineer, I had everything planned until I die. But when I say something, God says different. So I go with God, because he knows better."

"For years the Church has been the country's only moral point of reference. Faced with a people who look to her with hope, the Church has a grave responsibility to not disappoint them and to ensure that her activity and life are always exemplary giving testimony of coherence between what is preached and what is practised. If good example is necessary everywhere, this is certainly true in Peru where there is a serious institutional crisis of government, ethic and moral values and a marked presence of religious sects."

"All Peruvians have to know that the tasks that lie ahead are tough and that they require all of us. For this reason, we must put aside ideological differences, political positions and personal interests, in order to tear our country from the serious crises that overwhelm it."

"When you go out to ask for rights, they say that you are a terrorist, ... The terrorists are hunger and misery, abandonment, inequality, injustice."

"For four and a half millennia, our ancestors found ways to solve their problems and to live in harmony with the rich nature that providence offered them. It was like this until the men of Castile arrived..."

"This time a government of the people has come to govern with the people and for the people, to build from the bottom up."

"The three centuries in which this territory belonged to the Spanish crown allowed it to exploit the minerals that sustained the development of Europe, largely with the labor of the grandparents of many of us."

"I want you to know that the pride and pain of deep Peru runs through my veins. That I too am the son of this country founded on the sweat of my ancestors, built on the lack of opportunities of my parents and that despite that I also saw them resist. That my life was made in the cold of the early mornings in the field and that it was also these field hands that carried and rocked my children when they were little. That the history of that Peru, for so long silenced, is also my story. That I was that boy from Chota who studied at the rural school N10475 in the village of Chugur. That I am here today so that this story is no longer the exception."

"Health is a fundamental right that the State must guarantee. Physical and mental health will be the first priority in the government. We will establish a universal, unified, free, decentralized and participatory health system."

"A country that is not capable of recognizing and incorporating its ancestral knowledge and generating new ones from research ... will never be able to reach the levels of development required to adequately distribute elementary public services among its population..."

"Innovation will be a priority in schools and internet connectivity a right."

"...many of the provisions in force today only benefit large corporations so that they can take away our wealth in abundance. The state must be free to promote, to monitor and regulate according to the interest of the majority."

"The US ambassador in Peru, a veteran CIA agent named Lisa Kenna, met with the country’s defense minister just one day before democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a coup d’etat and imprisoned without trial. Peru’s defense minister, a retired brigadier general, ordered the military to turn against Castillo."

"When Pedro Castillo won the presidency in Peru in July 2021, he was not permitted to pursue even a ; the coup machinations against him began before he was inaugurated. The civilised politics that would end hunger and illiteracy are simply not permitted by the billionaire class, who spend vast amounts of money on think tanks and media to undermine any project of decency and fund the dangerous forces of the , who shift the blame for social chaos away from the tax-free ultra-rich and the capitalist system and onto the poor and marginalised."

"Some 500,000 scientists all over the world are devoting their knowledge to the search for weaponry more sophisticated and more deadly."

"It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom."

"The United States, ever since its founding fathers, has had an ideal, a mission to the world. In the '40s, it sacrificed the lives of many young people to achieve the freedom of the world. Nowadays, we need to focus on democracy and free trade."

"And thirdly, [we have] to defeat the absurd pantheist ideologies that believe that the walls are gods and the air is a god. In the end, to return to such primitive forms of religiosity where one is told, “don’t touch this hill because it is an Apu and is filled with millennia-old spirit,” and who knows what else. Well, if we reach that point, we wouldn’t do anything, much less mining. Don’t touch those fish because they are creatures of god and expressions of the god Poseidon. We would return to this, let’s say, primitive animism. Right? I think that we need more education [of these people], but that is long-term work that just can’t be fixed right away."

"Either we come to mutual understanding about Machu Picchu, or we just have to mark them as treasure hunters."