Paul Castro - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:28:50 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Paul Castro - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Communist Cuba makes Good Friday a national holiday https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/03/22/communist-cuba-makes-good-friday-a-national-holiday/ Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:01:29 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=41990 For the second year in a row, Cuba's communist government has declared Good Friday a national holiday. The gesture came days after President Raul Castro welcomed the appointment of Pope Francis as the first-ever Latin American pontiff. Last year the Cuban government observed a holiday on Good Friday as an "exceptional" gesture following a request Read more

Communist Cuba makes Good Friday a national holiday... Read more]]> For the second year in a row, Cuba's communist government has declared Good Friday a national holiday.

The gesture came days after President Raul Castro welcomed the appointment of Pope Francis as the first-ever Latin American pontiff.

Last year the Cuban government observed a holiday on Good Friday as an "exceptional" gesture following a request by Pope Benedict XVI, who had just visited the island in March.

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