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Sit-in at Havana church ends peacefully
From Progreso Weekly staff and news services
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Thirteen Cuban dissidents who occupied a Havana church for two days left the temple…
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Press release – 13 occupants removed from church in Havana
During the night of Thursday, 15 March, after more than 48 hours of uninterrupted and unauthorized permanence inside the Diocesan Sanctuary and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Charity in…
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Dissidents occupy Cuba church, seek papal audience
By Andrea Rodriguez
From The Associated Press
HAVANA (AP) -- Thirteen Cuban dissidents have holed up in a Roman Catholic church in Havana to press for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI…
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Needed: A new way to practice journalism in Cuba
By Alexei Padilla
From the blog La Chiringa de Cuba (The Cuban kite)
Some days ago, while riding a bus home, I heard someone ask a young man if he wanted a copy of Granma to read on…
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President Santos visits Cuba
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Havana, 03/07/ 2012. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrived in Havana today. The visit has a double purpose: the signing, together with Venezuelan!-->>!-->>!-->>…
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Worries on wheels
By Roberto G. Peralo
From La Joven Cuba
To try to narrate and describe everything that happened during that hour-long ride would be really long. And the dynamic of modern…
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2012: Which way to go?
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – It would seem that not much is going well in Cuba. Ugly, disheartening news emerges about the farm sector, a strategic part of the economy.
Will there be a…
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Church does not seek old privileges, Jesuit leader says
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – Cuba’s Catholic Church is not looking to regain its privileges of the past but hopes that its faithful will…
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The Pope’s visit and the complex exercise of dialoguing
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Fidel Castro’s presence at the Vatican in the 1990s and John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in January 1998 were landmarks in Cuba’s…
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Mambí Virgin: May we be brothers!
From Espacio Laical
HAVANA - Very soon now, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will arrive in our homeland. The Pope visits us within the context of the Jubilee Year proclaimed by the Cuban…
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