Havana, March 28 (RHC)—After paying a three-day pastoral visit to Cuba, described by Vatican authorities as very positive, Pope Benedict XVI left Cuba for Rome on Wednesday afternoon.

Havana, March 28 (RHC) Pope Benedict XVI and Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro held a meeting on Wednesday afternoon at Havana’s Apostolic Nunciature, Vatican’s spokesperson Federico Lombardi announced.

Havana, March 28 (RHC) Archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, thanked Pope Benedict XVI for “having included Cuba in this trip and coming as a pilgrim in this Jubilee year.” At the beginning of the Mass celebrated by the Pope at Havana’s Revolution Square on Wednesday morning, Ortega Alamino also thanked His Holiness for visiting the National Shrine of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre in Santiago de Cuba, where he worshiped and prayed for all Cubans before the statue of the Cuban Patron Saint.

Havana, March 28 (RHC) Cuban president Raul Castro attended the public Mass held by Benedict XVI at Havana’s Revolution Square on Wednesday morning in the final day of the Pope’s visit to the Caribbean nation. Thousands of residents of the Cuban capital and other neighbouring provinces were in the Revolution Square for the Mass, which was also attended by leaders of the Cuban Government and Communist Party (PCC).

Havana, March 28 (RHC) The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, announced in his latest Reflections entitled: The difficult times of human kind, that he would meet with Benedict XV on Wednesday. Revolution Leader Fidel Castro and Pope Benedict XVI met after the Pope delivered a mass Wednesday morning.

Havana, March 28 (RHC) A forum on care of the elderly (GERONTOGER 2012) opened its doors at Havana’s Convention Centre on Tuesday with the keynote lecture entitled “The health of the elderly in the 21st century: new and old challenges,” by an expert of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO).

Havana, March 28, (RHC), -- The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro has met on Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters in Havana.

Havana, March 28, (RHC), -- Cuban Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said he will gladly meet Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, after the open-air mass in Havana's Revolution Square.

Havana, March 28, (RHC), -- Pope Benedict XVI has concluded his apostolic visit to Cuba with a huge open-air Mass at Havana’s Revolution Square, where hundreds of thousands gathered to listen to the gracious words of the pontiff.