In a brief but heartfelt conversation at the airport’s VIP lounge, Archbishop Makarios recalled the historic 2004 visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Cuba, which took place at the ...

O’Malley this week hailed a historic deal between the US and Cuba while revealing that he ... saying on his blog that he ferried messages from Pope Francis to Biden and Cuban President Miguel ...

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., filling in for Colleen Dulle, speaks with Gerard O’Connell about Pope Francis ... announced that Cuba would release 553 ...

The Vatican’s history of securing prisoner clemency, such as past releases during papal visits to Cuba, risks being seen as merely symbolic when larger political issues remain unresolved. Figures like ...

What happened on January 21 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering. Trump orders government not to infringe on Americans’ speech, calls for censorship investigation Actors Who Are ...

Cuba has long tied prisoner releases to appeals from the Vatican, with thousands of prisoners released ahead of each of the papal visits to the island by St. John Paul II in 1998, Pope Benedict ...

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 20 (ACN) Pope Francis stressed today the importance of the Cuban government's decision to free 553 prisoners condemned for various causes, in the framework of the Jubilee of the ...

Pope Francis yesterday stressed the importance of the decision of the Cuban Government ... which states that it is a "practice that is common in our justice system and that has characterized the ...