{"id":480244,"date":"2025-08-27T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/religious-leaders-warn-of-social-deterioration-and-mental-health-crisis-in-dr\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:02:10","slug":"religious-leaders-warn-of-social-deterioration-and-mental-health-crisis-in-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/religious-leaders-warn-of-social-deterioration-and-mental-health-crisis-in-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious leaders warn of social deterioration and mental health crisis in DR"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 The growing wave of violent and heartbreaking events that have been recorded in the country in recent weeks has generated concern in different sectors. Religious leaders warned that the Dominican Republic is facing a deep mental health crisis and a deterioration of the social fabric, which must be addressed urgently.\n\nThe coordinator of Prison Ministry, Fray Ar\u00edstides Jim\u00e9nez Richardson, stated that these episodes are a reflection of a sick society that needs to review its foundations.\n\n\n
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\u201cHay signos de patolog\u00eda, de una especie de psicosis social. Es necesario que revisemos los valores que estamos transmitiendo desde la ni\u00f1ez, la adolescencia y la juventud. Vemos una desarticulaci\u00f3n familiar que est\u00e1 desgarrando nuestro tejido social, y este mal tiene que ser atendido por todas las instituciones del pa\u00eds sin distinci\u00f3n alguna\u201d, <\/p>advirti\u00f3.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nIn the same vein, the president of the Dominican Council of Evangelical Unity (Codue<\/a>), Feliciano Lacen, called on the entire nation to reflect on the spiritual and values disconnection that society is going through.\n\n\n

\u201cEstamos viviendo una desconexi\u00f3n de lo sagrado que nos est\u00e1 llevando a situaciones nunca antes vistas: madres quitando la vida a sus hijos, padres cometiendo atrocidades. No es solo un problema del Estado, es un mal que debe ser enfrentado por todos: gobierno, oposici\u00f3n, empresarios, sociedad civil e iglesias. Necesitamos un pa\u00eds en paz y convivencia pac\u00edfica\u201d, <\/p>manifest\u00f3.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nBoth leaders agreed that the current crisis should be taken as a profound call to rethink family, social, and spiritual values, and urged the different sectors to work together to restore trust, coexistence, and mental health in the Dominican Republic.\n\n\n

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Santo Domingo.\u2013 The growing wave of violent and heartbreaking events that have been recorded in the country in recent weeks has generated concern in different sectors. Religious leaders warned that the Dominican Republic is facing a deep mental health crisis and a deterioration of the social fabric, which must be addressed urgently. The coordinator of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20VS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}