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Story highlights Cuban Catholics start building their first churches since 1959 Religious believers had been seen as suspicious under the Castro regime The new churches are desperately needed, Cuban Catholics say

But in the isolated town of Sandino, Cuba's first Catholic church since the 1959 revolution took power is set to be built.

"There is money to start, there is the construction material to start, there are the permissions to start, so everything is ready," said Bishop Jorge Enrique Serpa Prez, who oversees the diocese where the new church will be built.

The Sandino church has been 56 years in the making, ever since Fidel Castro took power and Cuba became an officially atheist state.

Religious people fell under suspicion by the new revolutionary government, but none more so than those who belonged to the Catholic Church, which was seen as being overly sympathetic to the Batista regime that Castro had driven from power.

In the first years of the revolution, thousands of Catholic priests were jailed or forced into exile, and church property, including the Jesuit school that Castro attended, was seized by the Cuban government.

Only with the visit in 1998 of Pope John Paul II to the island did relations between the Cuban government and Catholic Church begin to thaw. Christmas again became a national holiday, and Cubans faced less official discrimination for practicing their faiths.

In December, Cuban President Raul Castro thanked Pope Francis for his role in the secret talks that led to a prisoner swap between Cuba and the United States and the start of negotiations to restore full diplomatic relations.

In 2015, church officials said requests to build new churches that had long been ensnared in red tape began to receive government approval.

While church officials said several new Catholic houses of worship are in the works, the first will be built in Sandino, a remote town at the end of a pothole-cratered road in Cuba's westernmost province.

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SANDINO, CUBA (CNN) - Pope Francis' role in brokering improved U.S.-Cuban relations has bolstered the influence of the Catholic Church in Cuba.

And for the first time since the Cuban Revolution, Catholics have received permission to build a new church on the island.

Father Cirilo Castro holds mass in a converted garage. There are no walls and just a tin roof.

It doesn't always have enough chairs, but it is the closest thing the isolated Cuban town of Sandino has ever had to a Catholic Church. Soon, construction will begin on the first church to be built in Cuba in more than 56 years - since the Cuban Revolution seized control of the island.

"I hope the church doesn't stay within these four walls - that it will go farther than that," Castro said. "That with the building of the new church there will be more people of faith."

The only thing at the site now was the building's cornerstone. Castro said it would hold 200 people when completed.

The new church represents a mending of relations between the Catholic Church and Cuban government. In the first years of the revolution, the government seized church property and expelled thousands of priests from the country.

The church has added significance for the town's residents.

"Sandino is an isolated town deep in the countryside," Patrick Oppmann said. "Here is where in the early 1960s people considered enemies of Fidel Castro's revolution were sent by the government to live in eternal exile. For many, life here was nothing short of a punishment."

Digna Martinez's family were among the hundreds, perhaps thousands, who in the early '60s were considered to be opponents of the Cuban regime.

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Friday, January 30, 2015 - 4:13pm

SANDINO, Cuba (CNN) A neglected, weed-strewn field in a small Cuban town where there are more horses than cars seems an unlikely setting for a major shift in government policy.

But in the isolated town of Sandino, Cuba's first Catholic church since the 1959 revolution took power is set to be built.

"There is money to start, there (is) the construction material to start, there are the permissions to start, so everything is ready," said Bishop Jorge Enrique Serpa Prez, who oversees the diocese where the new church will be built.

The Sandino church has been 56 years in the making, ever since Fidel Castro took power and Cuba became an officially atheist state.

Religious people fell under suspicion by the new revolutionary government, but none more so than those who belonged to the Catholic Church, which was seen as being overly sympathetic to the Batista regime that Castro had driven from power.

In the first years of the revolution, thousands of Catholic priests were jailed or forced into exile, and church property, including the Jesuit school that Castro attended, was seized by the Cuban government.

Only with the visit in 1998 of Pope John Paul II to the island did relations between the Cuban government and Catholic Church begin to thaw. Christmas again became a national holiday, and Cubans faced less official discrimination for practicing their faiths.

In December, Cuban President Raul Castro thanked Pope Francis for his role in the secret talks that led to a prisoner swap between Cuba and the United States and the start of negotiations to restore full diplomatic relations.

In 2015, church officials said requests to build new churches that had long been ensnared in red tape began to receive government approval.

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