Cuban President Raul Castro is attending the third Mass officiated by Pope Francis in Cuba, after the ones held in Havana and Holguin, this time at the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity, in the Santiago de Cuba´s town of El Cobre,
His Holiness arrived on Monday´s afternoon to El Cobre, in the third leg of his papal visit to Cuba, that will wrap up today at noon.
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Address by Pope Francis on his arrival in Cuba
Mr President,
Distinguished Authorities,
Brother Bishops,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I thank you, Mr President, for your greeting and your kind words of welcome in the name of the government and the entire Cuban people. I also greet the authorities and the members of the diplomatic corps present at this ceremony.
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