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Venezuela cabinet minister says Catholic bishops are spreading hate
June 12, 2009
Venezuela's interior minister, Tareck el Aissami, has charged that the country's Catholic bishops have become a political bloc and are guilty of inciting hated. He based his complaint on the report that during an ad limina visit to Rome, Archbishop Ubaldo Santana had said that the government of President Hugo Chavez-- who has clashed repeatedly with the Catholic hierarchy-- is "jeopardizing peaceful democratic coexistence" in Venezuela.
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