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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 10-05-25
CONTENTS
[01] APOSTOLIC NUNCIO - POPE`S VISIT TO CYPRUS
[02] AHI PRESIDENT - CYPRUS PROBLEM
[03] GREEK-AMERICAN LEADERSHIP CONGRESS - CYPRUS PROBLEM
[01] APOSTOLIC NUNCIO - POPE`S VISIT TO CYPRUS
Pope Benedict XVI is not coming to Cyprus to endanger the life of
anybody or to create problems but to meet his people, said here Tuesday
Archbishop Antonio Franco, Apostolic Nuncio of the Vatican, based in
Jerusalem.
Speaking after being received by President of the Republic Demetris
Christofias, the Archbishop said the ``the visit of the Pope is, first
of all, a pilgrimage on the footsteps of St. Paul, then the visit to
the community of the faithful, and there is also a dimension for the
Middle East because on the Mass on Sunday, he is giving what we call a
document that will be the basis, the instrument of the Synod of the
bishops on the Middle East, that will be held in Rome in October. So
there are those dimensions``.
He said the people will be pleased with the visit of the Holy Father
and expressed certainty that just as it has ``happened in Malta
recently, in Portugal also and here in Cyprus, there will be closeness
and this feeling of joy because for the Catholics, it is the visit of
the head of the church, visiting his family``.
[02] AHI PRESIDENT - CYPRUS PROBLEM
President of the American Hellenic Institute (AHI) Alecos Charalambides
said on Tuesday that there are opportunities that could be taken in the
USA in order to keep the Cyprus problem at the forefront.
Speaking after a meeting with Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs of the House of Representatives Averof Neophytou, Charalambides
noted the importance of such meetings, adding that they contribute to
efforts made by AHI to keep the Cyprus problem alive in the USA.
[03] GREEK-AMERICAN LEADERSHIP CONGRESS - CYPRUS PROBLEM
The Cyprus problem will dominate the national issues to be promoted
during discussions with members of the US administration and the
Congress by the delegates to the 26th congress of the Greek-American
leadership, to be held in Washington from May 25 to 27.
Other issues to be raised will be Greco-Turkish relations, the
Macedonian question, and the human rights and religious freedoms of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate.
The congress will be attended by Government Spokesman Stephanos
Stephanou, and the Mayors of the Turkish occupied municipalities of
Famagusta and Lefkoniko, Alexis Galanos and Michalis Pilikos
respectively.
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