Posted on 10/18/2005 12:44:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
Cuban police recently raided a home in the Cuban city of Colon and confiscated what officials later called "subversive and dangerous." But the contraband wasn't drugs, or pornography, or bomb-making instructions. What police confiscated were printed Gospels of John and a small printing press.
It was Sunday morning, Oct. 9, and five plainclothes secret police entered the house. After calling for reinforcements, a truck arrived with 12 armed, uniformed police who seized the gospels and the printing press. Cuban officials called the materials "subversive and dangerous."
Police then took Pastor Eliseo Rodriguez Matos, head of an Assembly of God church in the area, to the local police station for interrogation. Police then called Señora Caridad Diego, the minister of religion in Havana – an atheist who supports the Communist government in restricting Christian evangelism. The Ministry of Religion called the confiscated printing press "very dangerous."
"We agree with the government's assessment," responded Tom White, executive director of The Voice of the Martyrs, USA. "The Word of God is dangerous. It can produce eternal freedom in the midst of evil tyranny." White was a prisoner in Cuba 25 years ago after the plane from which he was dropping Christian leaflets crash-landed there.
Founded in 1967, Voice of the Martyrs supports persecuted Christians worldwide.
Elsewhere in Cuba, threats of demolition of house churches have never been so high. Recently, the government outlawed them and plans to hunt them down and close them. Many house churches have had equipment such as pews, homemade benches, musical instruments, Christian literature and anything else confiscated by police.
Voice of the Martyrs urges American Christians to pray for Christians in Cuba.
See post #17 for the Cuba trip by leftie Pinko moonbats. The Governor Blanco trip is a separate affair.
Go, OC!
I guess you could say the Cubans pulled the Bible out of their Colon, eh?
LOL!
Ew! Too close to dinner!
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This will be our future. Within seventy-five years religion will be outlawed "hate" speech. The government and the media elite will decide all "acceptable" thought. Get ready, it's coming.
No wonder Hollywood and the Democrats worship Cuba.
What's the new pontiff have to say about this oppression?
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But but...DU says that a friend of a poster says that when they visited they could hear people singing and worshipping in evangelical churches there!
Seriously, I didn't know that Tom White was the executive directer of VOM. I have his book, Missles Over Cuba, about his imprisonment there.
It's already law in Canada. Canadian Conservatives Battle Liberal Moral Gag Law
Y'think? Here is the real Cuba. Lotsa photos of current revolting conditions in schools, nursing homes and hospitals, as well as nice photos of tourist hotels.
Voice of the Martyrs tracks persecution of Christians worldwide.
I know, I just didn't know Tom White was their exec director. :)
O.K., now are the people demanding we recognize foreign detainees constitutional rights going to also demand we protect this persons religious rights as if our constitution applied to him?
Excellent question. Don't all demand at once, lefties!
Castro has always being antagonistic to Christians, despite his made-for-TV appearances in Havana churches with the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson or "born-again" President Carter. During these media events, Cuban parishioners are usually banished from their own churches and Castro's thugs fill the pews to applaud every word of the visiting American dignitaries.
The mockery of the gospel by Castro, Jesse Jackson, President Carter and others is beyond disgusting, especially when Americans travel to Cuba to "worship" with Castro, giving credibility to atheist Castro while ignoring the local persecuted Christians.
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