Cuba's Religion Minister Calls Gospel Printing Operation 'Dangerous'

Regime's Religious Freedom Rhetoric Rings Hollow as Atheist Official
Issues Menacing Critique

By Allie Martin
October 24, 2005

(AgapePress) - Cuba's Minister of Religion claims a Christian pastor
in that country was engaged in subversive and dangerous actions. The
church leader's alleged crime, apparently, was printing the Gospel of
John.

Earlier this month, five plain-clothes police officers raided the 
home of Pastor Eliseo Rodriguez Matos in the Cuban city of Colon. 
The officers confiscated a printing press and printed Gospels of 
John, and the Assembly of God church pastor was taken to the local 
police station for interrogation.

Todd Nettleton is with Voice of the Martyrs, a ministry to persecuted
Christians worldwide. He says the Minister of Religion had harsh words
for Matos. The Havana-based official, an atheist named Caridad Diego,
said the printing press was "very dangerous," a characterization the
VOM representative sees as very ironic.

"It's just a small [device], almost like a mimeograph machine,"
Nettleton points out, "and yet the minister of religion for the 
whole country of Cuba considers it to be very dangerous." Of course, 
he notes, the Cuban government has recently stepped up its campaign
against unregistered house churches. In that environment, printing 
and disseminating the gospel is an activity that would prove dangerous
indeed -- dangerous for the believer involved.

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Cheers, Steve..

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