Teologia e direitos humanos: reivindicações por novos relacionamentos

The theological term used by Bobbio asserts that human rights emerge as “signs of the times”, which can be a hermeneutical tool in the present day. Signs of the times come amid an increasing awareness of these rights (an age of rights) and, at the same time, multiply the violation of them, causing a feeling of disintegration of the human condition. Human rights are thus a reflection of human contradictions, the cry for justice, equality and freedom. For the theology built from Latin America, claims exposed in human rights are not strange. Especially, the so-categorized social, economic, cultural and environmental human rights are so close to theological aspirations that it seems difficult not to see correlations, conjugations. Thus, this paper aims to reflect on challenges and intersections between theology and human rights, specifically in the Latin American context. This combination, which does not ignore specificities, between theology and human rights can be an indication of hope and resistance. Therefore, the persistent search for liberation falls in the trajectories of Liberation Theology, whose announcing-denouncing task demonstrates to be relevant and necessary to the current context