Pope Francis set aside his prepared remarks to respond to the dreams and hopes of young people who spoke to him in Cuba on Sunday evening.

Pope Francis abandoned his prepared speech Sunday at an evening prayer service in Havana to urge the clergy to embrace poverty and never forget “the most abandoned.”

Pope Francis on Sunday visited the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the venue of the Jesuits in Cuba, where he saluted the believers and people in general who gathered there to welcome him.

Pope Francis has met Cuba's former President, Fidel Castro, after celebrating mass in front of tens of thousands of people in Havana.

Thousands of Cubans filled Havana's evocative Revolution Plaza for Pope Francis' first Mass, curious to see history's first Latin American pope on their home turf and hopeful over the key role he played in bringing about the historic detente with the U.S.

Pope Francis begged the Colombian government and rebels on Sunday to end South America's longest-running conflict, saying they simply cannot allow ongoing peace talks to fail.

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