Two pastors share about the pressures facing Christians in Cuba. Church activities are increasingly coming under the scrutiny and suppression of the authorities, whilst many believers are suffering from the country’s growing humanitarian crisis.
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Christianity in Cuba has faced difficult times, because there is said to be freedom to praise and worship God when many ministers and pastors are summoned, they are reprimanded, they receive warning letters. Many are under surveillance.
Christians in Cuba who do not align with the country’s Communist agenda are at risk of pressure and persecution.
Sermons can be monitored by the government
pastors harassed and arrested and church buildings closed.
Many who serve God as ministers and pastors have been persecuted from one moment to another have been summoned by the police or also by the state security.
And they even say that they have people working in churches as spies giving them information about the church, about church life, about how many members the church has
how many attend
what they do in churches
what activities they carry out
in which areas they are involved
what they are doing and what they are working on.
Many who serve God, including ministers and pastors were forced to close, their temples have been closed.
The authorities have tried to take away or snatch – one way or another, legally or illegally the temples or church houses where the brothers gather to praise and worship the name of the Lord.
I am a pastor of a Pentecostal church in Cuba. I thank God for the privilege he has given me to be able to put my hands to the plough and not look back. Many Cubans have migrated due to the economic hardship the political situation, the lack of food and lack of medicine. This has also direct affected the church.
Many Christians striving to provide for their families have emigrated. But there are others who have stayed. There is a church that remains in Cuba. We are here..
We ask you as brothers to lift up prayers for the pastor families and ministers, for the servants of God, who are serving the Lord with love and passion in this nation, in our nation, so that the kingdom of heaven may be extended and the living word of God may be glorified in the hearts of every Cuban man and woman.
Pray for the emotional, spiritual and physical stability of the brothers and sisters in Cuba that we may continue to keep our eyes fixed on Christ the Author and Perfecter of our faith so that our faith may not falter in the midst of such difficult times
Recording Location
Cuba
Organization featured in this Story
Open Doors UK – www.opendoorsuk.org
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