Pope's Itinerary to Mexico and Cuba and bits of news...

The Pope is going to Mexico soon and will meet some of the most anti-Catholic politicians in the world. On the various websites around the world, many news items are coming out. Here is one on the drugs cartels calling a truce. However, the number of babies aborted since Mexico City approved abortion in 2007 is 75,000.

Two websites provide insights into the horrendous problems in Mexico. One is here.
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The Knights Templars drugs cartel is calling a short truce -- but only to welcome Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico, an official said Sunday.

"They did put up signs announcing this," a Guanajuato state government source told AFP privately.

"The Knights Templars are holding off on all violent action, we are not killers, welcome to the pope," the official said paraphrasing one of the signs put up in the town of Irapuato, Guanajuato state.

The signs were seen in at least seven towns statewide.

The pope arrives March 23 in Leon, in the neighboring state of Michoacan, where the Knights Templars were founded.

President Felipe Calderon has launched a military crackdown against the cartels battling it out for control of the lucrative drug trade, in which some 50,000 Mexicans have lost their lives since 2006.

And, here is another article on the Pope's itinerary. The schedule for the Holy Father's forthcoming visit to Mexico and Cuba from the 23rd to the 29th of March 2012 has been released. Pope Benedict will depart on Friday 23rd of March from Rome’s Fiumicino airport on ruote to Mexico. On arrival at Guanjuato International Airport the Pope will be greeted by dignitaries. Highlights on Saturday 24^th of March will include a courtesy visit to the Federal President of Mexico at Conde Rul House in Guanajuato.

Later in the evening the Holy Father will greet children in Guanajuato’s Peace Square.

Following the celebration of Holy Mass on Sunday, March 25, in León Park, Pope Benedict will later that day celebrate vespers with the Bishops of Mexico and Latin America in the Cathedral of the Blessed Mother of the Light of Leon
On Monday morning March 26^th the Holy Father will depart Mexico for Cuba arriving in the country in the mid afternoon. Later that evening the Pope will celebrate mass to mark the 400^thanniversary of the rediscovery of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre in Cuba’s second largest city, Santiago de Cuba.
The Pope will visit this shrine to Our Lady on Tuesday morning the 27^th before departing for Havana.
After paying a courtesy visit to the President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers the Pope will meet with the Bishops of Cuba at the Nunciature in Havana.
The Pope’s final full day of activities on Wednesday, March 28, will include Mass in Revolution Square in Havana.


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