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Next week President Obama travels to Cuba on March 21-22 to try to move the US-Cuba relationship past a half-century of Cold War antagonisms. With the recent approval of plans to build the first new Catholic church in over 50 years and Pope Francis’s visit to the island last fall, there are signs of increasing openness to religious life in Cuba after decades of repressive Communist rule.<\/p>\n

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With the approval of plans to build the first new Catholic church in over 50 years and Pope Francis’s recent visit to the country, there are signs of increasing openness to religious life in Cuba after 50 years of repressive Communist rule. 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