The communist Castro regime in Cuba has forbidden a local Catholic church to carry out a traditional evening procession.
The communist Castro regime in Cuba has forbidden the local Catholic Church in the town of Esmeralda from celebrating a traditional evening procession of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, Father Alberto Reyes PíasThe Castro regime has forced the local community to celebrate the procession at an earlier hour instead, when the sun and heat conditions are “overwhelming,” according to the Catholic priest.Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre as Patroness of Cuba in 1916.
The traditional procession is part of the yearly celebration of Cuba’s patron saint, which includes a solemn Mass followed by a series of processions with the image of the Virgin across several towns in the nation, which the faithful accompany with prayers. On his Facebook account, Priest Pías said on Friday that the local parish in Esmeralda was scheduled to celebrate an evening Mass and then carry out the procession, as per tradition – but the Castro regime imposed a restriction that the procession cannot take place at night, with “no explanation, no appeal possible.”
“The [Cuban Communist] Party has spoken, the Party has decided, and its decision admits no reply, either it is accepted or there is no procession, even at an hour when the sun and the heat are oppressive,” Pías wrote.of the Castro regime’s communist indoctrination of children in schools, lambasted the regime for the lack of respect for religious freedom in Cuba and its continued control of any activity deemed “suspicious.
Some of the protests against the communist regime, such as those that are organized to protest against frequently occurring lengthy blackouts, take place at
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