Cuba said this week that it was releasing 553 prisoners “in the spirit of" Francis' 2025 Holy Year and had informed the pope of its decision ahead of time. The move came a day after the Biden ...

The previous two popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, each prodded gently for change when they visited Cuba, in 1998 and 2012 respectively. The pope will give eight speeches or homilies during ...

Pope Francis has issued a major rebuke to the ... federal prisons or have been taken to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

(ANSA) - Rome, September 22 - Pope Francis on Tuesday continued his historic Cuba-US trip, spending the last day of his four-day Cuba visit in Santiago. This is the pope's tenth trip abroad as ...

Cuba has released 553 prisoners under a Vatican-mediated agreement, despite the collapse of a United States pledge to ease sanctions in return. The island nation’s highest judicial authority announced ...

Cuba is making progress on a China-backed plan to install more than 50 solar parks this year capable of churning out more ...

Cuba has not reported how many of the 553 releases ... The Cuban government announced the release of 553 prisoners through the mediation of Pope Francis “in the spirit of the Ordinary Jubilee ...

The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for six weeks with pneumonia in both lungs. He will need to rest in the Vatican ...

Unlike Pope John Paul II's Mass in the plaza in 1998 ... groups of Chicagoans have resumed coming to Cuba under the Obama Administration's newly-relaxed travel policy. In Havana, they find ...

Pope Francis had two acute respiratory crises ... a U.S.-financed broadcaster provoked the ire of the communist government in Cuba. President Trump dismantled it in a matter of days.