Castro asks pope to visit Cuba
HAVANA, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Cuban leader Fidel Castro has invited Pope
Benedict XVI to visit the communist island, the Italian news agency ANSA
reports.
Castro extended the invitation to the pope via Cardinal Raffaele
Martino, who was visiting Cuba as an official representative of the
Catholic Church.
The invitation follows the popes recent suggestion for Cuba to "open its
heart" to God and the rest of the world.
The late Pope John Paul II made the first papal visit to Cuba in 1998,
around the same time that Castro granted some rights to the Catholic
Church in Cuba, ANSA noted, though not many.
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