The communist regime of Cuba prohibited Christians in Havana to celebrate the Solemn Traditional Stations of the Cross on Sunday, the Cuban points of sale reported.
“Therefore we report that the Solemn of the Cross stations announced and prepared by the vicariate for tomorrow, Palm Sunay, at 6:00 pm of line to Lateran, Bobe Vedado, Havana, Havana, Havana, Havana, Havana, announced On social networks about the weekend.
Catholics commemorate the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ Holy Week, an observance that will be held this year from April 13 (Palm Sunday) until April 20 (Easter Sunday).
Ramos Sunday celebrations, which commemorate the arrival of Jesus Christ to Jerusalem before being crucified, involve the blessing and distribution of the palm branches used to welcome Jesus Christ when he entered Jerusalem.
The cross stations that the Cuban communists forbidden that the parish of Vedado Celebre is a Catholic procession that commemorates the last day of Jesus Christ on earth before the resurrection on Easter Sunday. Some Christians observe this practice on Good Friday, which marks the crucifixion of Jesus. Neinder the Castro regime or the sacred heart of the Parish of Jesus has explained the reasons behind the prohibition of the procession in Vedado.
Last week, Father Zayas Díaz shared photos of the procession’s essay before Castro’s regime canceled it. The procession is in complete rug of events that the archdiocese or Havana planned for Holy Week this year in the Cuban capital.
Posted by Lester Rafael Zayas Díaz on Friday, April 11, 2025
Sunday’s ban marks the second consecutive year in which the Castro regime prohibited Catholics from celebrating Holy Week processions in the country. In 2024The regime prohibited Christians in Havana and several other cities to celebrate the stations of the cross and other Holy Week of that year. Before the 2023 and 2024 prohibitions, the Cruzada Vedado Stations were held without interruption for more than 11 years and had only been suspended due to the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.
At that time, Castro’s regime prohibited the processions of Holy Week in 2024, Father Zayas Díaz said The branch of Catholic news agencies, ACI Press, That the prohibition seemed to be motivated by fear of possible peaceful anti -communist protests, such as those that took place in the Bayamo and Santiago cities in Cuba in March 2024.
The departure of Madrid Diario de Cuba reported On Sunday that Father Lester Rafael Zayas Díaz is a vocal critic of the Castro regime. Duration a September 2023 Mass, Zayas Díaz referred to the continuous humanitarian and migratory crisis of Cuba that has pushed hundreds of thousands of Cubans to flee communism. Hey also expressed Conerns to Cubans fighting to be or Russia In its continuous or Ukraine invasion. Zayas Díaz was one of the Catholic priests who, according to the reports, supported the Cubans durade the historic July 2021 or anti -communism protests in Cuba.
“The procession request is not an initiative of the parish priest. It is the fruit of the desire of the parishes and, therefore, of the people who want to publicly express their faith, because bringing the religion they profess to their neighborhoods, to their DACE is. Itfeets, to Beetes, to the beets, to the sacred peoples of the people of God,” Zayas said. Statement.
“To deny it as a punishment for a pastor is, in addition to absurd, a violation of religious freedom. The pastor is only the spokesman for the desire of the people. He is the one who asks the competent authority, but it is not his personal desire.”
In March, the United States Commission on International Religious Liberty (USCIRF) published a report On the precarious state of religious freedom in Cuba and suggested that the United States government redired Cuba as a “country of particular concern” to participate in acts of “Freedom of Dury systematic, continuous and atrocious” that freedom.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.
