The Socialist Party of Venezuela, the ruling political party of the late President Hugo Chávez, has now stirred up opposition from the Catholic Church after one of the speakers at a party congress on Monday delivered an altered version of the venerated Lord's Prayer of Christianity — with the words changed to pray to Chávez.
"Our Chavez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and in us delegates," red-shirted delegate Maria Estrella Uribe read in front of a vast image of the former president, "Lead us not into the temptation of capitalism, deliver us from the evil of the oligarchy, like the crime of contraband, because ours is the homeland, the peace and life — forever and ever. Amen. Viva Chavez!" she exclaimed to applause. [Reuters]
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