End embargo says church

| 19/08/2009

(AP): A delegation of U.S. Roman Catholic Church leaders urged Barack Obama’s administration to seize what they called a rare political opportunity to lift the 47-year-old economic embargo against Cuba’s communist government. Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, Florida, said the U.S. church welcomed a recent move by Washington to relax travel restrictions on Cuban Americans with family in Cuba as well on the remittances they can send to those families. But he said there is much more to be done.

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