November 21, 2006

Wallenberg Foundation president dies

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The Argentine priest who headed the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation died at age 88.

Father Horacio Fidel Moreno’s death was announced last Friday in a release that said he pioneered interreligious dialogue in Argentina in the 1970s.

The foundation commemorates the life of Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews.

It also demands answers about Wallenberg’s subsequent fate at the hands of the Soviets.