text: Catholic peacemaking? Santos and the Colombian bishops repeatedly asked Pope Francis to visit their country. Representatives of FARC asked to meet the pope during his scheduled trip to Cuba. FARC Commander-in-Chief Timoleon Jimenez published an open letter to the pope calling for assistance in the on-going peace process. All were declined.
  "Weeks before the vote, religious groups accused the government of wanting to indoctrinate children by teaching “gender ideology” in schools; weeks later, they would accuse officials of injecting similar forms of treachery into an attempted peace deal to end the country’s half-century of civil war." “Pope Francis’ blistering attacks on ‘gender theory’… is emboldening Catholic bishops in Colombia.” The pope has used the terms “ideological colonization” which he defines as the imposition of "gender theory" and/or “gender theory" dozens of times around the world.  (Gender theory i.e. gender can be "chosen" and is against God's creation.)