Pope may visit Cuba, Mexico next spring

[November 10, 2011]  VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI may visit Cuba and Mexico next spring and will make a final decision shortly.

Spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Thursday that in recent days papal envoys in Cuba and Mexico were asked to inform religious and political authorities that Benedict is studying a "concrete project" to visit the two countries.

[Associated Press]

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