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After decades of hostility between Castro’s communist regime and the Catholic Church, relations began to slowly improve in the 1980s, culminating in a historic visit to Cuba by pope John Paul II in 1998.

Davis said, according to the Liberty Counsel. Staver said he was there when a auto picked up the Davises to take them to the embassy.

And he looked back on the huge crowds and cheering reception during his stops in Washington, New York and Philadelphia.

Pope Francis presented Fidel Castro with a link to the past Sunday: poems by a Jesuit teacher forced to flee Cuba after his one-time student – the now-ailing Marxist icon – led a revolution. “Holguin is with you!” from the tarmac as the pope emerged from...

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis told Congress on Thursday the USA should reject a “mind-set of hostility” to immigrants, directly addressing a subject that is dividing the country and stirring debate in the 2016 presidential campaign. The pope told the American church...

In the final leg of his journey, Pope Francis travelled to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families. The Philadelphia native has overseen the planning and execution of scores of events since then, though none as important politically or on as grand a scale as the Francis...

Death row inmate Richard Glossip of Oklahoma is scheduled to be executed today despite much doubt about his guilt regarding a 1997 murder conviction. Glossip’s attorney maintains his client’s innocence.

We loved our brothers. Those who covered this up are guilty.

For a few viewers, their comments were full of less detail, and were just short and to the point, with one reading, “CROOK, CLOWN, LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Pope Francis on Thursday received a hearty welcome from more than 500 justices, lawmakers and officials. But...

Cuban President Raul Castro blamed the United States for aggravating his country’s economic turmoil and demanded reparations Monday when he addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York City for the first time as president.

Pope Francis told Congress on Thursday that the United States should reject a “mindset of hostility” to immigrants, directly addressing a thorny subject that is dividing the country and stirring debate in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Cuba’s Cardinal Jaime Ortega, right, stands behind Pope Francis in the popemobile as they arrive for Mass at Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, September 20, 2015.

Sofía Cruz, a five-year-old girl, changed all that when the media turned its attention to her mission to deliver a handwritten, heartbreaking letter to the Pope. She defied all security protocols when she handed the pope her letter. “I am an American citizen with Mexican...

It follows the news that Dublin is to host the World Meeting of Families that year – an event which usually means a papal visit.

Pope Francis celebrated a giant outdoor mass in Philadelphia on Sunday, bringing to a close an electrifying U.S. tour with an appeal for unity and family love, having met victims of church sex abuse, AFP reports.