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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Bible printing press confiscated in Cuba

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
FAITH UNDER FIRE
Bible printing press confiscated in Cuba
'Ministry of Religion' calls publishing Scripture 'very dangerous'
Posted: October 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Cuban police recently raided a home in the Cuban city of Colon and
confiscated what officials later called "subversive and dangerous." But
the contraband wasn't drugs, or pornography, or bomb-making
instructions. What police confiscated were printed Gospels of John and a
small printing press.

It was Sunday morning, Oct. 9, and five plainclothes secret police
entered the house. After calling for reinforcements, a truck arrived
with 12 armed, uniformed police who seized the gospels and the printing
press. Cuban officials called the materials "subversive and dangerous."

Police then took Pastor Eliseo Rodriguez Matos, head of an Assembly of
God church in the area, to the local police station for interrogation.
Police then called Señora Caridad Diego, the minister of religion in
Havana – an atheist who supports the Communist government in restricting
Christian evangelism. The Ministry of Religion called the confiscated
printing press "very dangerous."

"We agree with the government's assessment," responded Tom White,
executive director of The Voice of the Martyrs, USA. "The Word of God is
dangerous. It can produce eternal freedom in the midst of evil tyranny."
White was a prisoner in Cuba 25 years ago after the plane from which he
was dropping Christian leaflets crash-landed there.

Founded in 1967, Voice of the Martyrs supports persecuted Christians
worldwide.

Elsewhere in Cuba, threats of demolition of house churches have never
been so high. Recently, the government outlawed them and plans to hunt
them down and close them. Many house churches have had equipment such as
pews, homemade benches, musical instruments, Christian literature and
anything else confiscated by police.

Voice of the Martyrs urges American Christians to pray for Christians in
Cuba.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46898

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