Alessandra Bastos
Reporter - Agencia Brasil

Brasilia – The bishop, Dom Luiz Flávio Cappio, ended his 11-day hunger strike after a meeting with the head of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Minister Jaques Wagner. The bishop was protesting against the transbasin diversion project of the São Francisco River.

The government committed to further analyze the project.

The bishop’s hunger strike attracted international attention. Pope Benedict XVI sent him a letter, which was personally handed by Dom Lorenzo Baldisseri, apostolic nuncio to Brazil. Baldisseri went to the northeastern municipality of Cabrobó to meet the bishop, accompanying the Minister, Thursday (6). The content of the letter was not made available to the press.

Translation: Andréa Alves