Cuban News Agency

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The religious leader was received at Havana’s Jose Marti International
Airport by the Archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, and by
Lazara Mercedes Lopez Acea, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party
(PCC) in the country’s capital.

The Pope spoke with a group of children who welcomed him and greeted the
faithful who went to the airport to receive him.

Benedict XVI’s agenda for his second day in Cuba includes a meeting with
President Raul Castro at Havana’s Revolution Palace.

Before traveling to the Cuban capital, on Tuesday morning, the Pope
visited the National Shrine of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre —the
Cuban Patron Saint—, where he prayed for all Cubans and spoke to the
Catholic faithful who greeted him in that village near the city of
Santiago de Cuba.

Pope Benedict XVI arrived on Monday in Santiago de Cuba, where he was
received by President Raul Castro, and a few hours later he celebrated
Mass at the Antonio Maceo Revolution Square.