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SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (Reuters) - Pope Benedict urged Cubans to build a better, "renewed and open society" on Monday and pressed the communist government to give the Catholic Church more freedoms to help the country in times of change. After arriving from Mexico to start his first trip to Cuba, the pope celebrated an open-air Mass for tens of thousands of people in Revolution Square ringed by palm trees in this eastern city and he delivered a strong, clear message in his sermon as President Raul Castro listened from the front row. ...More...