Cuba

Cuban President Raul Castro and Pope Benedict XVI held a meeting this Tuesday in Havana, during the second day of the apostolic journey of the Supreme Pontiff to the island.»

Pope Benedict XVI arrived at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport Tuesday from Santiago de Cuba on his second day in Cuba. The Supreme Pontiff was welcomed by authorities from the Government and the Catholic Church.»

Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to meet as for Tuesday a broad agenda in Havana which includes meeting the Cuban President Raul Castro during his second day in the Caribbean island.»

Pope Benedict XVI arrived on Monday to Santiago de Cuba to kick off a three-day apostollic visit, also including a stay in Havana, the capital.»

Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Santiago de Cuba, an eastern Cuban city, on Monday for a three-day apostolic visit to Cuba that will include public masses, tours and meetings with government and religious authorities.»

The first mass to be officiated by Pope Benedict XVI upon his arrival in Santiago de Cuba next March 26th, will be presided over by the image of the Virgin of Charity which, according to Archbishop Dionisio Garcia, will be exceptionally moved from her altar in El Cobre to the Antonio Maceo Revolution Square.»

Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed Venezuela´s head of state Hugo Chavez in Havana. The Venezuelan leader came for radiotherapy treatment to keep his recovery process from surgery a month ago.»

The Antonio Maceo  Revolution Square and the National Sanctuary of Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, in Santiago de Cuba,  are prepared to welcome Pope Benedict XVI, who will begin a three day visit to Cuba on Monday, March 26.»

Belarus First Industry Vice-Minister, Ivan Demi-dovitch, and Cuban diplomats in Minsk have analyzed how to strengthen bilateral trade.»

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday began a six-day trip that includes official agendas in Mexico and Cuba, as part of his second tour of Latin America in almost seven years of pontificate.»