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by AFP

Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday at the end of his visit to Cuba that no one should face limitations on “basic freedoms,” calling respect of freedom “essential.”

At a departure ceremony at the airport in Havana, in the presence of President Raul Castro, the 84-year-old pontiff called for the building of a “society in which all are indispensable actors in the future of their life.”

“May no one feel excluded from taking up this exciting task because of limitations of his or her basic freedoms,” Benedict said, urging the “building a society of broad vision, renewed and reconciled.”