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 Cuba
Cancels Commemorative Stamp of Pope's Visit
HAVANA, Cuba, June 7 (ACN)—A
commemorative stamp on the occasion of the visit to Cuba of
Pope Benedict XVI was cancelled in Havana at a ceremony
attended by the Cuban Vice-President Esteban Lazo Hernández.
Bruno Rodriguez
Parrilla, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Archbishop Bruno
Musaró, apostolic nuncio in Cuba, Cardinal Jaime Ortega,
Archbishop of
Havana, Eusebio Leal, Historian of Havana, and Silvia
Monarris, Deputy
Minister of Informatics and Communications made the
cancellation.
The stamp displays a picture of the meeting between the Pope
and the Cuban
President Raul Castro Ruz during the reception to His
Holiness in Santiago
de Cuba.
After the cancellation, the stamp will circulate nationally
and
internationally.
Presiding also the ceremony were Caridad Diego Bello, head
of the Office
of Attention to Religious Affairs of the Central Committee
of the Cuban
Communist Party, and Homero Acosta Alvarez, secretary of the
State Council.
Also present were members of the diplomatic corps in Cuba,
church
officials, representatives of the Ministry of Information
and
Communications and Foreign Ministry officials.
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