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Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Jul 24, 2012 \/ 12:04 pm (CNA<\/a>).- The president of the Bishops' Conference of Cuba, Archbishop Dionisio Garcia of Santiago, has mourned the sudden death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis was really a great loss for us because he was someone very committed, a faithful Christian. He was also someone very committed to his ideals, and this is very sad,\u201d Archbishop Garcia said during an interview on EWTN Radio\u2019s Spanish language program \u201cMas que noticias\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n

\tOswaldo Paya, a leading voice of the dissidence in Cuba, died July 22 in an alleged traffic accident in the eastern part of the country. Members of the Christian Liberation Movement are questioning the government\u2019s account of the accident, as Paya was constantly the target of death threats and harassment by the Castro regime.<\/p>\n

\tIn his remarks, Archbishop Garcia said he always knew Paya to be \u201ca Catholic very committed to his parish at El Cerro.\u00a0 Later I was with him at the National Cuban Ecclesial Encounter.\u00a0 He was always a very committed person, him and his family, his father and his brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe archbishop said that when he learned of Paya\u2019s death, he called his family, \u201cand this morning I offered Mass for him. I pray God will bring good to our country and fulfill the desires that he had to seek the wellbeing of all Cubans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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