HAVANA (AP) — The ashes of a U.S. pastor who led annual relief pilgrimages to Cuba in defiance of Washington's decades-old trade embargo have gone on display at a seminary on the island. The regional Communist Party newspaper Giron says religious leaders and worshippers paid their respects Thursday to the late Rev. Lucius Walker in Matanzas province.">HAVANA (AP) — The ashes of a U.S. pastor who led annual relief pilgrimages to Cuba in defiance of Washington's decades-old trade embargo have gone on display at a seminary on the island. The regional Communist Party newspaper Giron says religious leaders and worshippers paid their respects Thursday to the late Rev. Lucius Walker in Matanzas province.">

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New York pastor's ashes honored at Cuban seminary

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  • 07 / 01 / 2011

HAVANA (AP) — The ashes of a U.S. pastor who led annual relief pilgrimages to Cuba in defiance of Washington's decades-old trade embargo have gone on display at a seminary on the island.

The regional Communist Party newspaper Giron says religious leaders and worshippers paid their respects Thursday to the late Rev. Lucius Walker in Matanzas province.

A photo on Giron's website shows a simple box and a framed photo of Walker on an altar with flowers and a lit candle, underneath Cuban and American flags.

Walker headed the nonprofit Pastors for Peace and led 21 aid trips to Cuba. He died of a heart attack in New York last year at age 80.

Cuban officials have said Walker's ashes will be be laid to rest in a Havana park according to his wishes.

2011 The Associated Press.

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