Cuba will receive the Pope with all the love and respect it deserves, according to Ambassador

The Cuban Government has reiterated his "satisfaction" by the visit of Pope Benedict XVI will make to the island by next spring and said that you will receive "with all due respect and love he deserves", said yesterday the Cuban Ambassador to the Holy See, Eduardo Delgado.

In a note sent to Efe, Delgado added that the Government of Havana "will do everything within its competence to give (to the Pope) a happy stay and to save a memory very pleasure of our people and of their stay, as happened in the case of Pope John Paul II when he made his journey in January of 1998".

Pope Benedict XVI announced yesterday personally in the Vatican who visit Mexico and Cuba before the next week Santa.

Although no official confirmation, Vatican sources told Efe that he will be in the second half of March, presumably between 23 and 28. Holy week begins the 1 of April

Ambassador stated yesterday that the announcement u000aPapal has been welcomed "special by the Government and the people" Cubans, and that the Cuban episcopal conference has reiterated "his great joy at this visit, which has worked with large delivery".

Delgado pointed out that all Latin Americans, and especially the Cuban people, will host the Pope "with large samples of affection and respect, they offer you their hospitality and give testimony to the values of their culture and ethics".

This will be the second trip of Pope Ratzinger to Latin America, after which led him to Brazil in 2007, and the first two countries in Spanish of this area.

The visit to Cuba coincides with the 400th anniversary of the appearance of the image of the Virgin of the copper charity, patroness of the nation.

The Ambassador recalled that the image has done a tour throughout the Caribbean island from August 2010 and 2012 will be also the Jubilee year that will commemorate the IV centenary of the discovery of the u000aimage.

"Unity between doctrine and revolutionary thought in relation to the faith and believers is rooted in the very foundations of the Cuban nation and its main base is the sense of Justice, of love of neighbor, of equality and of aid to the needy, our own people or other sister nation," said the Ambassador in the communiqué.

The Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, said recently that Cuba was one of the countries which wished "a lot" to visit Pope Benedict XVI, who has not forgotten the historic trip of John Paul II to the island in 1998, where she delivered the now historic phrase "That Cuba open to the world and the world to Cuba".

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