Cuba’s figurehead president Miguel Díaz-Canel extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV on Thursday to visit the communist-ruled nation during his official meeting with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations.

Archbishop Gallagher visited Cuba this week to commemorate the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Vatican. The communist Castro regime, which has ruled Cuba for six decades, has an extensive track record of engaging in often violent religious persecution and imposing constant state surveillance against Catholics, members of other Christian denominations, and practitioners of other religions, especially those who fought against communism or have dissented

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