Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, will celebrate a “Mass” in honor of the late President of Venezuela Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias in Rome, where he is to attend the conclave that will elect a new pope.

In a statement sent to Fides, “Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, will celebrate a Mass for the funeral in Rome, in a place and date to be announced, and calls on all Venezuelans who want to participate in a religious ceremony to pray for President Chavez,” who died yesterday, March 5 at the military hospital in Caracas.

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