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Long way to go.


Dear editor,

This is in reference to your story, Conditions improved for Cuban churches, (February).

As a Journal reader, the last thing I would like to see in such a newspaper is a picture of Cuban president Fidel Castro Noun 1. Fidel Castro - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)
Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz
, even if it shows him being greeted by Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła   in 1998.

After the victory of Communism in Cuba, thousands of priests, monks and religious people disappeared into Soviet-style gulags. "Revolutionaries" led by Fidel Castro and his brother Raoul shut down religious institutions in Cuba and introduced intensive atheist ATHEIST. One who denies the existence of God.
     2. As atheists have not any religion that can bind their consciences to speak the truth, they are excluded from being witnesses. Bull. N. P. 292; 1 Atk. 40; Gilb. Ev. 129; 1 Phil. Ev. 19. See also, Co. Litt. 6 b.
 propaganda.

Rev. Reinerio Arce, principal of the Evangelical Seminary of Theology in Matanzas, said in your story that a majority of Cubans are followers followers

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 of Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion. I have traveled extensively in Cuba but did not find anyone connected with such religion.

Your story is right that conditions have improved for Cuban churches. But freedom of religion has a long way to go; religious activities are still under the heavy supervision of the Cuban Communist Party Communist party, in China
Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991.
 and the Cuban Ministry of the Interior.

George Le Mac

London, Ont.
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Title Annotation:LETTERS
Author:Le Mac, George
Publication:Anglican Journal
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:May 1, 2006
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