Madrid Spain.- In recent hours it transpired that the Cuban regime expelled from the country the priest David Pantaleón, who from the Sunday newsletter Vida Cristiana exposed the reality of Cuba.
the news was confirmed by the nun Sor Ariagna Brito Rodríguez, of the Sisters of Charity of Cardinal Sancha.
“We regret that the Cuban Government, using its faculties of dictatorial power, without principles or values, forces you to leave the country: they fear the truth, they fear the face of good and getting rid of what bothers them is their only way. to proceed,” said Brito Rodríguez.
“This should not happen. Those who must leave the country are those who use power to live like kings, at the expense of a slave people, punished, flogged and forced to flee, ”he said.
Pantaleón, superior of the Jesuits in Cuba and president of the Cuban Conference of Religious (CONCUR), was among the pastors who asked the regime to bring assistance to the activists of the San Isidro Movement (MSI).
After the refusal, David Pantaleón explained through Facebook: “A religious sister tried to reach, without advertising and without cameras, the group of young people from San Isidro who have been locked up in their premises for several days. They remain there asking for the release of one of their companions who they consider unjustly imprisoned and sentenced without defense. The nun just wanted to give a little religious assistance in the face of the serious death threat of those who have been on a hunger and thirst strike for several days.”
“This is not about left or right ideologies. It is about things as simple as the right to live, to express what one thinks, to discuss differences without ‘demonizing’ the opposite, to respect the dignity of all”, added the priest in his statements. .
In recent years, complaints have increased against the island’s regime for its persecution of religious, mainly when they express ideas contrary to government management.
The Poll on Religious Freedom 2022 carried out last June by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) revealed that 67% of Cubans know someone who professes a religion and has been harassed, repressed, threatened or hindered in their daily life for reasons related with your faith.
In January of this year the evangelical NGO Open doors included Cuba in its annual ranking of the 50 countries with the greatest persecution and discrimination against Christians.
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