Pastors for Peace return from Cuba today.

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July 13, 2008 -- for immediate release-- please forward

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PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN RETURNING FROM CUBA MONDAY JUNE 14

TO REQUEST RELEASE OF SEIZED COMPUTERS DESTINED FOR CUBA



The Pastors for Peace US/Cuba Friendshipment Caravan will return to the US on Monday June 14 after delivering nearly 100 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba, and will request the return of the 32 donated computers for Cuba that were seized from their caravan by US officials on July 3.

The members of the caravan had an eight-day educational program in Cuba that included visits to different provinces, to homes for the elderly, and health care facilities. They also visited the Latin American School of Medicine, where students from 30 nations are studying free of charge to be doctors, in order to serve their communities in their home countries. More than 100 of those students are from the US.

The caravan is returning to the US on the same day as the Venceremos Brigade and several other organizations engaging in challenging US restrictions on travel to Cuba.

"We will continue to challenge this dumb, foolish, petty, counterproductive, mean-spirited, and immoral blockade until it is ended," said Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr., executive director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace.

Pastors for Peace is a project of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which has a 40-year history of work in favor of social justice. More information about the caravan and photos can be found at www.pastorsforpeace.org <http://www.pastorsforpeace.org> .




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