article_snippet.sent: (Pope Francis will visit Cuba on Pope Francis way to the United States in September, the Vatican said Wednesday -- a trip that will come months after Pope Francis helped negotiate a diplomatic thaw between the two countries.
article_snippet.sent: The exact timing of the Cuba trip wasn't immediately released, but the Vatican said the Pope would stop in Cuba before the Pope planned late September stops in Washington, New York and Philadelphia.
article_snippet.sent: the Pope coming here, maybe the Pope could ... make more positive ways for Cubans to go towards religion, more than politics," said Raul Garcia, a Cuban-American who returned to Cuba.
article_snippet.sent: I think it's going to be a very good visit, very beneficial for Cuba.
article_snippet.sent: the Pope should come and get to know it and walk around the pretty spots in Havana.
article_snippet.sent: Cuba's state-run television reported that Francis would visit, but like the Vatican did not report exactly when Francis would arrive.
article_snippet.sent: Francis, The Pope, played a role in restarting diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, earning praise from both U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro.
article_snippet.sent: The Pope made personal pleas to Obama and Cuban leaders in private letters, writing that the two nations should try to reset the two nations relations after decades of friction.
article_snippet.sent: the Vatican also hosted talks between U.S. and Cuban delegations in October, where the Vatican hashed out aspects of a new trade policy and discussed the release of jailed American contractor Alan Gross, who was freed as part of the detente between the two countries.
article_snippet.sent: I want to thank His Holiness, Pope Francis, whose moral example shows us the importance of pursuing the world as it should be, rather than simply settling for the world as it is," Obama said in December as " Obama announced a U.S. policy shift on Cuba.
article_snippet.sent: Obama will be the third consecutive leader of the Roman Catholic Church to visit Cuba.
article_snippet.sent: Church officials in Havana said that Church officials in Havana expect " Obama visit to be shorter than those of " Obama predecessors.
article_snippet.sent: Officials from the Vatican are expected to travel to Cuba soon to finalize logistics for " Obama trip, Officials from the Vatican said .
highlights_snippet.sent: Pope Francis played key role in re-establishing diplomatic ties between Cuba and U.S. 