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The newspaper Juventud Rebelde (Ana María Domínguez Cruz: “For peace, unity and sincere dialogue”, November 5) states that during a three-day stay (November 2-5), John McCullough, president of the Churches in Service Worldwide, Grady Parsons of the Presbyterian Church in the United States and Rabbi Howl Sonny Schnitzer of the Jewish Renewal Movement “were able to feel the religious freedom that exists in Cuba.” Hand in hand, of course, with Joel Ortega Dopico from the Cuban Council of Churches.

World Church Service. Cuban Council of Churches. With these strange names, anyone might think that there is no place for faith either globally or nationally in Cuba.

The existence of sycophants and false prophets in the service of tyranny is always a source of shame for themselves.

World Church Service. What other behavior can we expect from an organization left over from the extinct socialist bloc, from which only exceptional examples can be extracted, such as the organization of Czech Reformed theologian Josef Hromadka, one of its founders, who was rejected in protest against the Soviet invasion. The president of Czechoslovakia was forced to resign as chairman of the so-called “Christian Peace Conference” and died six weeks later.

Cuban Council of Churches (Cic). Over the years, this organization has not said a word about Cuban political prisoners, but has always unconditionally supported their executioners, those who provide them with wine and bread. According to the opinions of some members extracted from multiple dialogues held in June 2007 at the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Center, published in the entirety of the article in Caminos Magazine, No. 46, 2007, pp. 50-60, under the title “Ecumenism in Cuba”:

Pastor Raúl Suárez: “…Everyone wants to have a project because there are many things behind the project that are not ecumenical. But you know how many projects do not follow an ecumenical strategy, but a strategy for the survival of an organization or institution.”

Rodolfo Juarez: “We all want the CIC to be a bastion of Cuban universalism, but in reality it cannot and will not be, because its structure does not allow it. We do not want to hurt those inside, nor to scare off those outside, to maintain a peaceful but unproductive coexistence… Sometimes all we do is the talk of old men: we meet to talk about universalism, but we do not influence anyone. “All this must be reorganized, but with commitment.

Kirenia Criado: “…the first thing we have to do is to start reading our reality and do it in a very critical way, understanding criticism as reflection, to understand where we are and what our mission is…we have to sit down and discuss how we can change things, because they don’t really speak to the ecumenism that we want, whose fundamental goal is to change reality, to put humanity and human life above everything and to see how God acts in history. “

It is no coincidence that the visits and statements of these priests come on the heels of the report of Christian Solidarity in August, translated into Portuguese and published by Anajure in October, and the recent report of the international Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Poverty (Aien). Those who have gained fame precisely in the religious field have provided charitable assistance to the notorious Cuban government, which is rightly questioned in the religious field. This visit is an echo of the lobbying carried out by CIC representatives in Washington last February, recognized by Granma magazine (http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2014-11-04/para-poder-exercer-un-cambio), which was exposed at the time (Cubano Confesante, post of February 24, and other blogs: http://religionrevolution.blogspot.com/2014/02/they-will-be-presented-at-the-congress-of-los.html).

But this is only about those organizations that have already been described with strange and exaggerated names, which dare not only to speak in the name of the Church that has not given them a voice, but even in the name of God, which is blasphemous. Just as our José Martí criticized the actions of the complicit clergy at that time, and despite this he admitted: “No, my friends, there is another God”, thus inspiring hope, it is necessary to warn the world that another Evangelical Church is also on pilgrimage about Cuba, just like the confessors of Nazi Germany, who are against the meek ecclesial unity demanded by the current totalitarians. But this helps us to know that we are not alone, because we have brothers not only from CSW, Anajure, AIN, etc., but also from the Church of the Holy Spirit. Other well-known organizations with global influence are also included, although none of them are allowed to enter the island (amazingly, even the famous Latin American evangelist Alberto Mottessi was denied a visa 4 times), such as the International Council of Churches or the World Evangelical Alliance, whose existence is to show that this so-called World Council of Churches, a derivative and successor of disappeared political regimes, of which the Cuban system is one of the last, pale strongholds, does not have a monopoly on faith, but it seems that, for the always outstanding Hromadekas, the opposite is true.