With Regards to the New Flotilla that Came Today To Salute Us / Mario Barroso
This has been given to me from the blog of a fellow pastor who identifies himself as Miqueas de Roca: “I do not use electrical cords for this…” This story was also told me by a good friend, who...
View ArticleIt’s Good for Them to Know They Are United /Mario Barroso
When Granma and the National Televised News publicized on Thursday, February 23rd the previous day’s meeting between hierarchies of Cuban religious denominations and fraternal organizations with...
View ArticleAnother Pope, Another Cuba, Another Church / Mario Barroso
The scenario is different. The visitor also. When the Polish Pope, John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, visited Cuba in 1998 he found Monsignor Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu as archbishop in Santiago de Cuba, and...
View ArticleIt Will Change / Mario Barroso
The city that looks toward the heavens, that looks toward the sea, at the infinite / asking itself from within what our destiny will be A neighbor from Taguayabón, scandalized with the growing...
View ArticleThe Energy Regression / Mario Barroso / Yoaxis Marcheco Suarez
By: Yoaxis Marcheco Suarez Two separate power outages last week, one on Monday from early morning until well past noon and the other on Tuesday night occupying the afternoon, made me reflect again on...
View ArticleThe Missions of the Cardinal / Mario Barroso
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40 In those years of UMAP*, when Mr. Jaime Ortega was one more in the concentration camps, no...
View ArticleOUR SHARE OF REPRESSION FOR THE VISIT OF BENEDICT XVI / Mario Barroso
The 103rd Annual Assembly of the Baptist Association of Western Cuba, to which I belong, concluded Saturday the 24th at 6:00pm. That was why my wife Yoaxis and I found ourselves in Havana from the...
View ArticleLetter from Priest Mario Félix Lleonart Barroso to the Villa Clara Provincial...
April 23, 2012 Year of the Lord. From: Priest: Mario Félix Lleonart Barroso. To: Villa Clara Provincial Prosecutor’s Office and Management of the Protection of Citizen Rights of the Prosecutor General...
View ArticleUnion and Ostracism / Mario Barroso
This past February 23rd the official press media of the country informed of the meeting held between members of the Central Committee and the Government with the principal leaders of religious...
View ArticleTHE PRICE OF RECOVERING CELEBRATIONS / Mario Barroso
In my previous post, “Recovered Celebrations,” I alluded to the concessions that the Cuban regime has granted to the Catholic church in regards to Christmas and Good Friday. Although the latter has...
View ArticleALL OF US CHRISTIAN CUBANS SHOULD SIGN THE CITIZEN DEMAND FOR ANOTHER CUBA /...
ALL OF US CHRISTIAN CUBANS SHOULD SIGN THE CITIZEN DEMAND FOR ANOTHER CUBA For several weeks now the CITIZEN DEMAND FOR ANOTHER CUBA has come to be known, a demand which a symbolic number of Cubans —...
View ArticleTomás, the Man who Brought Broadway to Taguayabón / Mario Barroso
This past July 2 was second anniversary of the death of Tomás Leopold Alfonso Manso. He was born on September 30, 1941, and unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack on July 2, 2010, leaving an...
View ArticleOur Campaigns and the Pacts / Mario Barroso
In 2008 the Mission Board of the Baptist Convention of Western Cuba convened the first Campaign of Fifty Days or Prayer for Cuba. It was an intense journey of prayer that involved believers inside and...
View ArticleTaguayabón, Far From the Biennial / Mario Barroso
For some weeks Havana has had its Biennial and as almost always in my little forgotten village life goes on between the tedium and mediocrity. Behind these airs of expositions and performances I can’t...
View ArticleHow to Apply the Words of Paul in the Cuban Context / Mario Barroso
JOIN IN SUFFERINGS So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. (2 Timothy 1.8) Any action which I...
View ArticleAfter Almost Three Months’ Absence, Here Again / Mario Barroso
It is incredible that time is flying. Especially when one has no access to the internet and has problems with technology. This, among other things, is what was happening to me during those three...
View ArticleMy Encounter with Paya in Voices 16 / Mario Barroso
Careful with those whom you all kill, they can spur a craving for liberty in the people (Oswaldo Paya in an interview by the Hispano Cubana Magazine, No. 16, 2003, p. 122). Friday, September 7 the...
View ArticleThe Inheritance of Rosa Maria Paya / Mario Barroso
My first direct contact with the Payá family was very unfortunately this. I was totally dissatisfied when during the confused seconds before the coffin I offered brief and protocol words of sympathy...
View ArticleThe Influences of Paya Over My Life / Mario Barroso
Away from the capital and without any contact with the Christian Liberation Movement I thank God who made use of small signs of liberty that came to me from here and there in order to guide me in the...
View ArticleRepression at Paya’s Funeral / Mario Barroso
Regrettably, I did not have the honor of being part of the repression that was not lacking this time, either. I long suspected that the time to depart for the cemetery would be the most propitious for...
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