Cuba makes Good Friday an official holiday
*Since Pope Benedict’s visit to Cuba in 2012 the Cuban government has been easing it’s restrictions against religion. It’s interesting to note that this year the national holiday commemorating Fidel Castro’s defeat of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion coincides with holy week. The kids get a day off from school anyway. VL
Cuba has now made Good Friday an official national holiday after restoring that Catholic feast as an “exceptional” measure when Pope Benedict XVI visited the island in 2012.
The new Labor Code, passed by the National Assembly in December, established Good Friday as a holiday “every year,” Communist Party daily Granma said Tuesday.
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