With Cuban president Raul Castro and VP Miguel Diaz Canel in the audience, Pope Francis celebrated today in Santiago de Cuba his last religious act on the island before traveling to the United States.

Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C., this afternoon after wrapping up his trip to Cuba. His final stop on the island is in Santiago, with a Mass at the country’s most-revered shrine and a pep talk with families.

Military braids, stethoscopes and even a baseball adorn a shrine for the 'Virgin of Charity,' Cuba's most precious religious icon where Pope Francis is to celebrate his last Mass on the island this week.

Pope Francis delivered a mass in eastern Cuba Monday morning, a day after doing the same for hundreds of thousands in Havana.

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.”