” “"The Colombian bishops receive with joy the news of the release of the prisoners in the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and ask this guerrilla group to release the other hostages". This is written in a note of the Department of social communication of the Colombian Bishops Conference (www.cec.org.co), published just after the release of Ingrid Betancourt and the other hostages. The president of the Bishops Conference, mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, stated that the release of the former presidential nominee Ingrid Betancourt, of the three American nationals and the 11 members of the Colombian armed forces is a piece of news that fills him with deep "satisfaction". "Let this release be one more sign that the Farc are seriously thinking of the possibility to talk with the government", added mgr. Castro Quiroga. The archbishop of Bogotá, card. Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, expressed the wish that the Farc "may release all the othef hostages".
