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“As early as now, the Washington government is already busy assuring Pope Francis” visit will be peaceful and quiet.
The countries agreed a historic deal in July to re-establish full diplomatic relations, severed at the peak of the Cold War.
A 15-year-old US boy has been arrested for plotting to attack the Pope.
He praised the Pope for helping ease conflict between Cuba and the USA. The Pope invoked the “light and strength of the Holy Spirit, and the intercession of Mary Most Holy” the Patroness of Cuba under the title of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, and the Patroness of America under the title of the Immaculate Conception.
The papal visit is being hailed as a symbol of the new relationship brewing between Cuba and America, old Cold War enemies.
Pope Francis at the Vatican September 12, 2015, greeting directors and employees with their families of Cooperative Credit bank of Rome, as he arrives for his meeting in Aula Paolo VI. He’ll visit New York and Philadelphia later this month. The roundtable meeting is meant to go over all worst case scenarios to decide how the city would react during his two-day visit.
Pope Francis will be spending eight days combined in Cuba and the United States starting Saturday. Look for his live reports starting this Friday.
Law enforcement officials have made assurances that there are no specific and credible threats concerning Pope Francis’s visit. He will deliver four out of his 18 speeches in English. “We have disrupted one particular case”, McCaul told ABC’s “This Week” show. He feels more comfortable (with Spanish). In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis on Sunday praised the framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, while expressing deep worry about bloodshed in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.
His speech at the U.N. General Assembly and the homilies of all his masses, will be in Spanish.
During a trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines in January, the pontiff had trouble with pronunciations and improvised in Spanish while an aide translated into English, according to Ein News.