The An­tilles Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence (AEC) is call­ing on all Ro­man Catholics through­out the re­gion to ob­serve Thurs­day (Jan­u­ary 1, 2026) as a Caribbean Day of Prayer— “en­trust­ing our re­gion to the mer­cy, jus­tice and guid­ing light of Je­sus Christ”.

The AEC brings to­geth­er 19 Dio­ce­ses and two In­de­pen­dent Mis­sions com­pris­ing 13 in­de­pen­dent coun­tries, three Over­seas De­part­ments of France, six is­lands of the King­dom of The Nether­lands, and six British Over­seas Ter­ri­to­ries

In a mes­sage, AEC Pres­i­dent and the Arch­bish­op of Port of Spain, Ja­son Gor­don, said he is urg­ing all gov­ern­ments “with in­flu­ence in the Caribbean basin, in­clud­ing the Unit­ed States, Venezuela as well as the 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), and our hemi­spher­ic part­ners to choose di­a­logue over force, diplo­ma­cy over in­tim­i­da­tion and co­op­er­a­tion over uni­lat­er­al ac­tion.”