Cuban dictatorship dispatches communist apparatchiks to attack annual Bible reading event in Havana

Religious persecution is alive and well in socialist Cuba.

Via Evangelical Focus:

Traditional public Bible reading threatened in Cuba

The Evangelical League of Cuba (LEC in Spanish) organizes a public reading of the Bible, which takes place every year in the ‘Malecón’ in Havana, on the first Sunday of December.

This year, pro-Communist regime activist Elaine Salaregui attacked this initiative on her Facebook account, saying that Christianity “express itself again in public space, this time giving visibility to the Bible they use as a club, showing up as a crowd, or even worse, as the Cuban Church”.

Salaregui leads the Church of the Metropolitan Community, with about 100 members and presence in several cities of the island. It receives support from the Cuban government, thanks to her proximity to Mariela Castro, the niece of the late dictator Fidel Castro.

Also known as “the gay church”, the Metropolitan Community is not registered, however it has never received the hostile treatment other Christian communities suffer.

In addition to Salaregui’s post, journalist Francisco Rodríguez Cruz, proposed  “to go there that day to read the Constitution”, a provocation that several people seconded. Rodriguez was known months ago for comparing evangelical believers with staphylococci, in a Facebook post.

“Read your Bible in its proper places and behave yourself. Don’t cry in jail for breaking the law”, pro-Castro writer and poet, Jesús García, threated the participants.

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