Church celebrates educational reform in Bolivia after years of being silenced

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – After almost 20 years of socialist administrations that curtailed the Catholic Church’s role in public education, Bolivia now has a pro-market president aiming to reform the Andean country’s educational system – and the Bishops’ Conference has been invited to take part in the process.

President Rodrigo Paz Pereira, who took office in November 2025, announced in February that his administration would undertake a sweeping education reform in Bolivia and pledged to invest US$50 million in the process.