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December 24, 2014, 4:50 PM Last updated: Wednesday, December 24, 2014, 4:54 PM

HAVANA Golden rays of tropical sunlight slant through the caved-in roof of Saint Thomas de Villanueva chapel, illuminating tiles graced by the faces of saints. Vandals shattered the stained-glass windows and scrawled their names on the thick walls during decades of frigid relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Cuba's communist government.

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In this Dec. 1, 2014, a guard walks inside the chapel of the former University of Santo Thomas of Villanueva in Havana, Cuba. Since late 2009, President Raul Castro's government has been quietly returning some church property that was confiscated in the years after the Cuban revolution, including this chapel. The rest of the university property was not returned. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

But a new chain-link fence surrounds the building, protecting it for a future that once seemed unimaginable.

The church is planning to restore the building to its former glory, along with more a dozen more churches, parish houses and other buildings, as part of a quiet reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Cuban government that has brought relations to a historic high point this Christmas. Authorities have also given permission for the construction of the first two new churches in more than five decades.

After years of bridge-building behind closed doors, the Cuba-Vatican rapprochement burst into the headlines last week when the U.S. government credited Pope Francis with helping facilitate the secret reconciliation talks between the U.S. and Cuba. Francis wrote the leaders of both countries to invite them to resolve their differences.

Church officials and experts said the mediation and the renovation and construction of churches were essential parts of a fundamental shift in the dealings between the church and the communist state, which has been hostile toward religion for decades.

Developments "are heading in the same direction: a new chapter in the general and economic history of Cuba, and also church-state relations," said Enrique Lopez Oliva, a religious historian at the University of Havana.

The church and the Cuban government were in a state of open hostility in the years immediately after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power, a time when some anti-Castro military used churches to store weapons.

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The congregation of University City Church will be celebrating Christmas Eve under the stars in the parking lot of the historic downtown church this evening.

An electrical fire in the churchs attic a year ago in November has led to an $8million renovation project. The sanctuary with a state-of-the-art video and audio sound system is targeted for completion in February, said lead pastor Andy Tracy.

Meanwhile, the 400-member congregation has had Sunday services at several locations during the year the latest at Tucson High Schools auditorium.

But since the school district is closed for the holidays, the congregation will gather for Christmas Eve services in the churchs parking lot, 604 N. Sixth Ave., at 5 p.m.

It will be a simple service with beautiful music, and the celebration of the baby Jesus who was born 2,000 years ago. His birth is a message of hope, said Tracy, explaining that members of the nondenominational church have been studying the different characters in the Christmas story.

The congregation made up of University of Arizona students and families from across the city has remained strong and united during the rebuilding.

Elder Don Pooley, 63, a mostly retired professional golfer who is an elder in the church, will be at the Christmas Eve service with his wife, Margaret, and their two daughters, a son-in-law and two grandchildren.

It has been quite a wild ride from the fire to holding service in the church parking lot, then under a tent and in other locations until the reconstruction is finished, Pooley said.

We are seeing how God is taking care of us through the whole thing, said Pooley, explaining that the church was built in 1925 and had issues when the congregation bought it in 2013.

The small attic fire caused extensive smoke and water damage that ruined the interior building with wooden pews, flooring and ornate woodwork.

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