[NYTr] Cuban leaders meet with Latin American bishops in Havana
 
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:20:22 -0500 (CDT)


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Granma International - Jul 14, 2007
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/julio/sab14/Cuban-leaders-meet-with-Latin-American-bishops-in-Havana.html

Cuban leaders meet with Latin American bishops in Havana

By Francisco Forteza

HAVANA, July 13 (World Data Service).- High-ranking leaders of the
Cuban government met cordially with Catholic bishops who were visiting
Havana for the 31st General Assembly of the Latin American Episcopal
Council, it was announced today.

An official news source today said Carlos Lage and Esteban Lazo
HernC!ndez, both vice presidents of the Council of State, and Foreign
Minister Felipe PC)rez were among those attending.

"On July 11, comrades Carlos Lage DC!vila and Esteban Lazo HernC!ndez,
vice presidents of the Council of State and members of the Political
Bureau, together with other leaders of the Cuban Party and government,
held a meeting at the San Juan MarC-a Vianney Rectory with several of
the participants in the 31st General Assembly of the Latin American
Episcopal Council, led by Monsignor Raymundo Damasceno Assis,
archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil, president of the Council, and Cardinal
Jaime Ortega Alamino, archbishop of Havana," Granma daily newspaper
reported.

"Their meeting, which took place in a cordial and constructive
atmosphere, served to exchange viewpoints with their visitors on the
national reality, challenges facing our country, the negative effects
of the blockade (imposed by the United States) on the population and
the economy, and cooperation programs with Latin American countries,
which we carry out in Cuba and abroad," the article said.

"Those present agreed on the need for the training of Latin American
professionals in Cuba to continue strengthening human values and the
preservation of their beliefs, traditions and customs, so that they can
return to their home communities to serve the neediest," the article
continued.

It also added that the Councilbs representatives and Episcopal
conferences "expressed thanks for the facilities provided for their
general assembly in Cuba, which concludes today with a mass at Havana
Cathedral and during which its new leadership was elected."

This leadership is comprised of its president, Monsignor Raymundo
Damasceno Assis, archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil; Monsignor Baltazar
Porras Cardozo, archbishop of MC)rida, Venezuela, first vice president;
Monsignor AndrC)s Stanovnik, bishop of Reconquista, Argentina, second
vice president; Monsignor Emilio Aranguren EcheverrC-a, bishop of
HolguC-n, Cuba, president of the economic committee, and as general
secretary, Monsignor VC-ctor SC!nchez Espinosa, auxiliary bishop of
MC)xico, the article noted.

This is the first time the Council has held a meeting in Cuba. The
Assembly was attended by 71 delegates from Latin America, including
four cardinals. It was reported that the closed-door meeting discussed
the way in which to carry out the pastoral letters issued by the Fifth
General Conference held in the Brazilian city of Aparecida in mid-May,
and that each countrybs situation was reviewed.

Translated by Granma International 
       
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