Pr. prof. Ion Ciungu
“Vă îndemn deci, înainte de toate, să faceţi cereri, rugăciuni, mijlociri, mulţumiri, pentru toţi oamenii,” ... (Epistola întâia către Timotei a Sfântului Apostol Pavel 2,1) https://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=78&cap=2
Cuba
este o țară insulară în nordul Americii Centrale, la confluența dintre Marea
Caraibilor cu Golful Mexic și Oceanul Atlantic. La nord de Cuba se află SUA și
Bahamas, la vest se află Mexic, la sud se află Insulele Cayman și Jamaica, iar
la sud-est se află Haiti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba ... https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba#Religion ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Cuba
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Ghidul cu cele 52 de
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Why is Cuba on the 2022 World Watch
List?
Persecution
in Cuba continues to worsen. Last year, Cuba was just outside the top 50
countries on the World Watch List. The continued rise is the result of highly restrictive
measures against churches deemed to be opponents of the regime, especially
non-registered Protestant churches.
The
COVID-19 crisis has been used as a pretext to hinder church and community
activities, monitor church leaders, make arbitrary arrests, confiscate private
property and impose extortion fees. Christian leaders from different
denominations were among those arrested during anti-government demonstrations in
July.
Cuba
jumped 13 spots to enter the top 50 of this year’s World Watch List.
What is life like for Christians?
For
Christians in Cuba, life is dictated by Communist government control. So, when
church leaders or other Christians criticize the regime, they face a gamut of
difficult consequences: arrest, church and business closures, government
harassment, even prison sentences.
Where is God at work in Cuba?
Few
new churches are granted legal registration—a strategy by authorities to
control and limit the church’s influence. But that doesn’t stop pastors who
feel called to plant a church. Leaders like Pastor “Luiz:” “We meet in my
house’s garage and in homes around different neighborhoods, because to this day
we do not have a building, not even the possibility of legally registering our
church.”
How can I pray with Christians in
Cuba?
Day
1: Pray that God will bring about change in Cuba’s political landscape, so that
religious freedom will be honored.
Day
2: Pray for resilience and wisdom for church leaders as their congregations
continue to worship God together despite all the restrictions placed on them.
Day
3: Pray that new churches would be allowed to register and operate legally.
Day
4: Pray with Pastor Luiz and church leaders like him who are following their
callings and planting new churches in a hostile environment.
Day
5: Pray with children of church leaders whose faith and last name make them
doubly vulnerable to persecution.
Day
6: Pray that God would bring opportunities for local Open Doors partners to
serve the persecuted church in Cuba.
Day
7: Pray that persecuted believers in Cuba would deeply sense and know the truth
of Romans 8:37—that they are “more than conquerors through Him who loved us”
(Romans 8:37).
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Aici
am terminat de adresat invitația de a ne asocia în rugăciune pentru creștinii din
Cuba.
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