Havana, Cuba, Oct 8, 2003 / 22:00 pm
The Leonor Pérez Committee of Mothers for the Release of Political Prisoners, a group of women that visit Catholic parishes asking for prayers for political prisoners, has extended its appeal from the Church of St. Rita in Miramar to other parishes in the Cuban capital.
“This way,” says Noris Durán Durán, the Committee’s Vice President, “a greater number of citizens will be aware of the plight of Cuban prisoners of conscience. We are informing parishioners, and they join us in prayer to God for the health, the lives, and the freedom of political prisoners, and for the well-being of other inmates.”
Durán, who is the mother of former prisoner of conscience Lázaro Constantín Durán, said she prepares a list each month of the visits that will be made on Sundays to different parishes.
The Vice President of the Committee said the prayer appeals began on September 28 in the Church of Corpus Christi near the government-owned Palacio de Convenciones, continuing on October 5 at the Church of St. Thomas. On October 12 the appeal will take place at the Church of St. Jude, in Old Havana.