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Buenos Aires Bishop Cancels Mass for Arabs ‘fallen for Palestine’

December 23, 1968
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A mass scheduled for the Metropolitan Cathedral here today in honor of Arabs “who had fallen in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine” was cancelled by Juan Carlos Aramburu, Bishop Coadjutor of Buenos Aires.

The scheduled special mass had been announced previously by Rev. Julio Meivielles, a notorious Argentine anti-Semite. The DAIA, central organization of Argentine Jewry, protested immediately to the Catholic diocese. Bishop Aramburu’s announcement followed, stating “no special mass except the normal masses have been scheduled for this Sunday in the Metropolitan Cathedral.”

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