AMERICA/CUBA - Amnesty for 3522 prisoners: the Bishops express their satisfaction with "this act of mercy"

Saturday, 12 September 2015

Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "The news of the liberation of prisoners is a source of joy and spiritual relief for the detainees themselves and their relatives as well as for the collaborators of the Prison Pastoral Care", said a statement of the General Secretariat of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, published yesterday September 11, with which the Cuban Bishops express their heartfelt satisfaction with the humanitarian gesture of the Government of Havana that has decreed an amnesty for 3,522 prisoners.

The Bishops report that all the dioceses have received numerous requests from relatives of people in prison to ask for amnesty.

"With this action of mercy one is already anticipating the fruits that the Visit of Pope Francis, as Missionary of Mercy, will leave for the welfare of all our people", the statement concluded. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 12/09/2015)


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