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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2014, 12:00 AM Dec 2014

Pope Francis played key role in restoring U.S.-Cuba ties

Gregory Korte and Oren Dorell / USA Today

WASHINGTON (RNS) A personal appeal by Pope Francis played a key role in finalizing a deal to open relations between the United States and Cuba for the first time in 53 years.

The pope wrote a personal letter to President Obama this fall — something he’d never done before — and a separate letter to Cuban President Raul Castro.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/12/17/pope-francis-played-key-role-restoring-u-s-cuba-ties/

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