Cuba to Build 1st Catholic Church Since Revolution

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Monday, August 11, 2014
CBNNews.com

Cuba is scheduled to build its first Roman Catholic church since the Communist Revolution 55 years ago.

The project's main sponsor is Saint Lawrence Parish in Tampa, Florida, where most of the members are Cuban exiles or descendants of exiles.

The news comes right after a recent report of persecution against another church in Cuba. The Voice of the Martyrs reports that in July, government agents demolished a house church on the island.

The demolition began while Pastor Esmir Torreblanca and his wife and two young children were still asleep inside the house.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/August/Cuba-to-Build-1st-Catholic-Church-Since-Revolution/

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1. Update:

A neglected, weed-strewn field in a small Cuban town where there are more horses than cars seems an unlikely setting for a major shift in government policy.

But in the isolated town of Sandino, Cuba's first Catholic church since the 1959 revolution took power is set to be built.

"There is money to start, there is the construction material to start, there are the permissions to start, so everything is ready," said Bishop Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez, who oversees the diocese where the new church will be built.

The Sandino church has been 56 years in the making, ever since Fidel Castro took power and Cuba became an officially atheist state.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/30/living/cuba-catholic-church/

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2. Thanks!