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Weekly Report - 14 May 2015 (WR-15-19)
CUBA: All roads lead to Rome, or is it Havana?
Cuba’s President Raúl Castro is clearly enjoying his new ‘celebrity’ status. But Pope Francis is sufficiently impressive to turn practicing Communists to Catholicism, a jovial Castro quipped following a 50-minute private audience with the Argentine pontiff in the Vatican on 10 May. “I promise to go to all his Masses, and with satisfaction. I read all the pope’s speeches and commentaries, and if he continues in this way, I will go back to praying and return to the church. I’m not joking!” he twinkled.
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