The Pope ends his visit to Cuba with a mass and seeing Fidel
Havana (Reuters) – the Pope Benedict XVI will close on Wednesday his visit to Cuba with a multitudinous mass in the mythical Plaza de la Revolución in Havana and a meeting with Fidel Castro, after spending three days on the Island with a message of renewal and opening for a country that has five decades of Socialist Government. The historical leader of the Cuban revolution announced Tuesday night that saludarÃa “happy” the Envoy of Rome as it did 14 years ago with his predecessor, the late John Paul II, in a meeting that meant an end to hostilities between the Catholic Church and the Communist authorities. “I came to the conviction that Marxists and sincere Christians (…) should and could fight for Justice and peace among human beings,” said Castro, aged 85, in one of their usual reflections written titled “The difficult times of humanity”. “I proclaimed as well and thus contend,” added the former President, who declared to the atheist nation. The Pope, 84, met on the eve the President, Raúl Castro, trying to cement the influence of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean country, where the Government promotes a series of reforms intended to modernize the economy without giving up the socialist ideology. It was revealed that Benedict XVI made a “humanitarian request” Castro, which many interpreted as a request to release political prisoners or the American...
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