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.
If you're intending to insult someone's religious faith, you'll probably have to be a little less circumspect.
Castro vs. God.
I suspect that Castro will lose.
Ping!
Amos 8:11 “The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 People will stagger everywhere from sea to sea, searching for the word of the LORD, running here and going there, but they will not find it.
13 Beautiful girls and fine young men will grow faint and weary, thirsting for the LORD’S word.
14 And those who worship and swear by the idols of Samaria, Dan, and Beersheba will fall down, never to rise again.”
And remember, this is the SAME corrupt, Godless country that many of our illustrious "stars" support: Robert Redford, et al (and including our former president - Jimmy Carter, a professing Christian - which I simply cannot understand for the life of me). But of course, these things are NEVER mentioned in the media. I wonder why not.
Gaaaaaahhhhh! My eyes!
Anti-commie ping!
Now we need signs reflecting this incident and connecting it to Code Pink."WILL CODE PINK BE TAKING BIBLES TO CUBA?"
"CASTRO HATES THE SCRIPTURES, CODE PINK LOVES CASTRO"
commies suck donkey weiners with running pustilent warts.IMAO
If this is a double PING I apologize
Amen!
I think that's rather uncharitable of you, my dear. It's as if you do not believe in learning or redemption.
That would be a man who played Robin Hood on the left, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor -- and on the right, a man who robs from the poor and gives to the rich.
BTTT
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