FIDEL CASTRO PLANS TO VISIT MOUNT ATHOS

Macedonian Press Agency ^ | FRIDAY, 19 MARCH 2004 | Macedonian Press Agency

[Destro]

FRIDAY, 19 MARCH 2004

FIDEL CASTRO PLANS TO VISIT MOUNT ATHOS

Thessaloniki, 16 March 2004 (16:40 UTC+2)

Cuban President Fidel Castro's close associate Eusebio Leal will be in Thessaloniki in May to prepare the Cuban leader's visit to the monastic community of Mount Athos in Chalkidiki, northern Greece.

President Castro has also accepted the invitation by Thessaloniki Mayor Vasilis Papageorgopoulos to visit the city given that fact that Thessaloniki and Havana will become twinned cities very soon.

According to Thessaloniki newspaper “Angelioforos”, the Cuban government confirmed President Castro's intention to visit Thessaloniki and Mount Athos after the visit to Cuba by the Ecumenical Patriarch last January on the occasion of the inauguration of the Saint Nikolaos church in Havana.

The date of the visit has not been set yet but according to the newspaper report, the leader of Cuba expressed his wish to visit Greece in a meeting he had with Metropolite Athinagoras of Panama and Central America

Fidel Castro's associate Eusebio Leal, ranking third in the hierarchy of the Cuban government, will visit Mount Athos in May to settle the details of Castro's visit to the monastic community.

[Destro]

Is Castro converting to Orthodoxy?

[Destro]

You can't make this stuff up.

[Angelus Errare]

I am Catholic, not Orthodox, but that communist thug should not be allowed to desecrate Mount Athos with his presence.

[Destro]

Is not the Christian religion made for redemtion and repentance?

[Angelus Errare]

As long as the repentance is sincere.

The number of political prisoners still residing in Havana leads me to doubt his convictions on this one.

[Pyro7480]

I agree. That unrepentant thug shouldn't go up there.

[marshmallow]

Fidel's searching. Looking for something. He invited the Pope to Cuba, now he's visiting monasteries.

With every passing day he becomes more aware of his own mortality. He looks back on his life and it now seems so empty, so vain. Gone so quickly, never to return. He wonders.......maybe......just maybe........

[Destro]

The only criteria to visit is that you be a male.

[Bismarck]

Castro is, in deed, an ORTHODOX MARXIST. (In the political not religous sense of the word).