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Cuba says that the Abdala vaccine is proven to be 92% effective against COVID-19.
2021-06-21

At St. Peter's Square Pope Francis reviews highlights from his African visit to Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius on September 4-10.
2019-09-11

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who served as Pope John Paul II’s personal secretary is the principal celebrant at the World Youth Day opening Mass on July 26th evening in Kraków, Poland. Pope Francis is to arrive in Poland on July 27th afternoon.
2016-07-27

U.S. President Barack Obama and the First Family begin their three-day visit to Havana, Cuba, to mark the end of 54 years of tensions in Cuba–United States relations. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
2016-03-20

Pope Francis meets with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in Havana, Cuba. It is the first time that the heads of the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church have ever met.
2016-02-12

Pope Francis returns to Rome after finishing his trip to Cuba and the United States.
2015-09-28

Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. from his last stop in Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, at Joint Base Andrews (formerly, Andrews Air Force Base), near Washington D.C., to start his first tour of the United States. He is received by U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia and Sasha Obama, Marian Lois Robinson, U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, his wife, U.S. Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden, two Biden granddaughters, the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, military and base leaders, and Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl. He will be received tomorrow morning in a second arrival ceremony, at the White House, and will meet with the President there.
2015-09-22

The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them 55 years ago. An American embassy will open in Havana and talks to lift the embargo will begin.
2014-12-17

Cuba is hit by a cold wave, and some locations register 50-year record low temperatures.
2010-12-17

Three more dissidents released by Cuba on humanitarian grounds arrive in Spain.
2010-07-22