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Havana (Agenzia Fides) – Cuban President Raul Castro attended the opening of the “Seminario de San Carlos y San Ambrosio,” the first building of the Catholic Church in more than half a century. The official ceremony presided by the Cardinal Archbishop of Havana, Jaime Ortega y Alamino, and the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC), Archbishop Dionisio Garcia, was attended by some 300 guests, including many bishops of the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Italy, and the Bahamas. Among them was also the Apostolic Nuncio in Havana, Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, and a delegation of the Knights of Columbus in the United States, led by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.
The new formation center was built in the Archdiocese of San Cristobal de La Habana and as planned, it will be attended by a hundred students (see Fides 28/10/2010). The first stone of the religious building was blessed by Pope John Paul II during a Mass celebrated in Havana on January 25, 1998, at the end of his historic visit to the island. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 04/11/2010)
