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Pope Benedict on Sunday urged world leaders at this week's U.N. general assembly not to allow the global financial crisis to distract them from efforts to try to wipe out poverty and disease .

According to the source, that group of nuns is preparing other shipments that should arrive in the next few days.

A Miami Catholic order ignores political differences to help storm victims in Cuba.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami is collecting monetary donations to help the Caribbean islands affected by a busy storm season that brought the havoc of Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

Cuban record company EGREM launched collection “Canto a los Orishas. Lázaro Ros, el apkwón mayor”, an important title of the so-called Afro-Cuban genre.

Tradition, ceremony and religious manifestation linked with the Virgen de Regla reveals the photographer Roberto Salas in the exhibition The Last Cabildo of Yemaya, photographic rehearsal that testifies the framework of the first years of the Revolution.

Projects for heritage preservation and sustainable development benefit Baracoa, a Cuban northeastern area of high values in flora and fauna, in the city of which rises the first catholic church built in Cuba.

The Cuban press emphasized the work of Zhang Yimou, one of the best known Chinese movie makers in the world and the director of the opening ceremony of the XXIX Beijing Olympic games.

The church La Milagrosa (The Miraculous) appears among the patrimonial assets of the easternmost Cuban province, Guantanamo, next to which rises The Canonical House Obispado, project that ran off with the Prize for Architecture and Town Planning Jose Lecticio Salcines 2008.

The yorubá or lucumí religion which is also known as Santeria or Regla de Osha is the most expanded religion of African origin in Cuba.

With the purpose of highlighting the Cuban culture’s deepest roots and strengthen unity between the island and other nations that share similar cultural backgrounds, the Fifth International Yoruba Conference will be held from July 17 to 20 in Havana.

Responding to constant pressure from communities all across the US, US officials returned to the members of the 19th US-Cuba Pastors for Peace caravan 32 computers that had been seized on July 3.

Members of the US Pastors for Peace Caravan visited historical places in central Sancti-Spiritus province, including sites where guerrilla commander Ernesto Che Guevara led some of his battles.

The 19th Pastors for Peace Caravan is expected to arrive Saturday in Havana with humanitarian aid for the Cuban people, challenging the US government blockade on the island state.