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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 04:47 AM Mar 2012

Pope to end Cuba trip with mass, Fidel Castro meeting

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict will step onto Cuba's biggest stage on Wednesday with a public mass in Havana's Revolution Square as he wraps up a trip that began with a blast at communism and will end with a visit with Fidel Castro.

The leader of the world's 1.2 billon Catholics will speak to several hundred thousand people, perhaps more, in the sprawling plaza that Castro, 85, used to fill with big crowds and fiery revolutionary rhetoric in hours-long speeches.

Ten-story high images of Castro's revolutionary sidekicks Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos dominate the treeless expanse of pavement from adjacent office buildings.

The Pope is expected to keep up calls for change in Cuba that have punctuated his public comments since his arrival on Monday in the eastern city of Santiago.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/uk-pope-cuba-idUKBRE82R05E20120328

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