Visiting Buenos Aires, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Nawaf Massalha said he raised the issue with Argentine President Fernando de la Rua and would discuss it further with government officials. Human rights groups estimate that about 30,000 leftists and dissidents vanished after being detained by the military junta. Sister Mary Elisabeth Hesselblad, who died in 1957, was one of five people beatified by the pope during a ceremony Sunday.
Beatification is a step to conferring sainthood.
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