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Yesterday was not just an ordinary SpiritFm day. 
Havana, Cuba, Dec 3, 2016 / 03:40 pm (Church Pop).- After Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba in 1959, he spent the next decade slowly imposing socialism on the country, including state atheism.In 1960, several Cuban Catholic bishops signed a letter re-affirming the Church’s long-standing rejection of communism and called for Catholics to reject it. In response, his government confiscated Catholic property and arrested Catholics. Then, in 1969, he banned the celebration of Christmas.This ban on the celebration of one of the Church’s high holy days lasted for nearly three decades until 1998, when St. John Paul II successfully convinced him to remove the ban. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, John Paul II’s spokesman in the 1990s, recently shared the amazing story with Vatican Insider.“I explained to him [Castro] that now that the date of [John Paul II’s] visit was set – for 21 January 1998 – it would be interesting if it were a great success,&rdquo...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Green Party-backed voters dropped a court case Saturday night that had sought to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, in what Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein had framed as an effort to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated....
SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) -- Cuba is nearing the end of its nine-day public mourning for Fidel Castro with a second massive rally in honor of the revolutionary leader....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Authorities are investigating terrorism as a possible motive in the car-and-knife attack on the Ohio State University campus, the latest in a series of cases involving young men who apparently became radicalized in the heartland state....
CHAPECO, Brazil (AP) -- On a rainy Saturday that only accentuated the grief, 20,000 people filled a tiny stadium under umbrellas and plastic ponchos to say goodbye to members of the Chapecoense soccer club who died in a plane crash....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters struggled to get to bodies in the rubble Saturday after a fire tore through a converted Oakland warehouse during a late-night electronic music party, killing at least 9 people and making the charred structure unsafe for emergency crews to enter. Officials said they feared the death toll could rise as high as 40....
(Vatican Radio) Europe could move further to the right when Austrians go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president in an election that has been overshadowed by concerns over Europe's migration crisis and sanctions against Russia. Far-right candidate Nobert Hofer, of the Freedom Party, will face Alexander Van der Bellen, a former leader of the leftist Greens Party. Hofer has already made clear he wants to end sanctions and a tougher policy towards migrants fleeing war and poverty.  Sunday's elections are therefore seen as a test for the political direction of Austria and other European Union member states. Polls show the rightwing populist Hofer and Green-backed Van der Bellen neck and neck for the vote.A victory for the 45-year old Freedom party candidate, Hofer, would make him the first far-right head of state in the EU since the second world war. Van der Bellen narrowly won the original vote in May, but it was annulled because of irregularities in the co...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The next Congress will begin work immediately next year toward repealing President Barack Obama's health care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday....
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