Posted on 07/11/2004 12:03:48 PM PDT by wagglebee
A group of U.S. pastors has arrived in Cuba, some wearing T-shirts reading: "Regime change in U.S., not in Cuba."
It's the 15th trip to the island police state for Pastors for Peace, who travel there in violation of U.S. law by going through Mexico.
The group brought tons of aid to help Cuba deal with the severe effects of a drought, which has made life even more miserable than it would normally be under Communism.
Among the supplies the group brought are school buses, medicines, medical equipment, computers and books.
PFP is an arm of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, based in New York. Since 1992, it has delivered 2,350 tons of aid to Cuba without requesting a U.S. government license, Cuban officials said.
The group wants to see an end to what it describes as "the immoral U.S. economic blockade" that began in the early 1960s.
Group leader Lucius Walker told Aljazeera.net yesterday that this year's mission comes at a crucial time for some of the "most disadvantaged people in the world."
He also condemned President Bush's "provocations and aggressions against Cuba."
Group leader Lucius Walker told Aljazeera.net yesterday that this year's mission comes at a crucial time for some of the "most disadvantaged people in the world."
All I can think of is that if Al Jazeera is interested in Cuba and Castro, its because Castro is involved with the jihadists. And don't these pastors realize that Castro has worked as hard as anyone in the world to destroy Christianity.
My friend, you are under the delusion that these pastors are Christians.
Cuba sees around 2 million tourists every single year. The Embargo is not the root of their problems, communism is.
You don't really think these pastors are Christian at the core do you? Think about it. Marxists and socialists have no use for regligion. Religion is merely a competing idiology to those idiologies. Thus these 'pastors' are working to bring about a society that has no use for religion, unless that religion is a marxist socialist blend, sans Christ or the Holy Trinity.
We should call the whole bunch treasonous and "blockade" this group out. A year in that third world p-hole without American rights and quality of life and they would beg to come back.
He's part of the national council of churches, he uses the term "pastor" very loosely!
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization
IFCO/Pastors for Peace is a member of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition
These people should be crucified........literally!
No, I don't think these pastors are true Christians. But even the most hypocritical at least try to keep up the charade. What is most disgusting is the fact that Cuba prior to Castro was the most affluent nation in the Caribbean (granted there was some corruption) and Castro destroyed all that. IMHO Reagan should have gone straight from Grenada to Cuba; Castro has no Soviet Bloc to support him anymore, we should take him out before he succeeds in his present mission to destroy Venezueala the same way he did with Cuba.
REVEREND LUCIUS WALKER, JR. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr. is the executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). He was the founding director when IFCO was first incorporated in 1967. He served as Associate General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA from 1973 through 1978. In January 1979, he returned to IFCO, which has the distinction of being the only national ecumenical foundation committed exclusively to the support of community organizing. |
"doctrines of demons"
It's only 90 miles off our coast, why don't they just move there and live in peace and contentment?
Communist fronts have always assumed many guises. The Christian religion isn't even a new one.
Martha Orianna Baskin, "The civil rights struggle goes Cuban", Sojourners, September-October 1994
Unwilling to abandon the bus, 13 "caravanistas," including Rev. Lucius Walker Jr., executive director of Pastors for Peace, initiated a hunger strike in the tradition of other acts of civil disobedience. After 23 days, the White House gave in to enormous grassroots and international pressure and allowed the bus to be taken to Cuba.
On January 31, Pastors for Peace attempted to take 325 used computers across the Mexican border from San Diego to be donated to Cuban hospitals, in intentional violation of the U.S. economic embargo. . .Rev. Lucius Walker, Lisa Valenti, and Jim Clifford ended their fast when the remaining computers were released on May 24.
The national council of churches is about as leftist as a organization can get. Many churches are members of this organization, who have absolutely no idea what the true emphasis of the organization is.
Ping.
Communists in pastors clothes, much like wolves in sheep clothing. They are the new Greeley's.
Ops4 God Bless America!
All in the attampt to make YOU the reader think that life under communism is a good thing ~!
Group leader Lucius Walker told Aljazeera.net
Hello FBI Secret Service are you listening ?
"Away from me, for I never knew you".
President Fidel Castro of Cuba may have obediently observed the 7-minute limitation during his speech at the UN Millennium Summit last week, but he made up for it last Friday at Riverside Church in Harlem when he spoke for almost four hours. . .Rosemari Mealy, a longtime Cuban supporter and a broadcaster at WBAI-FM was the evenings moderator, and she introduced the churchs pastor, Rev. James Forbes. Forbes, whose church was the location of a forum for the grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban youth at the center of the tug of war between the U.S. and the Cuban government, brought a great response when he referred to the handshake between Castro and President Clinton at the UN Summit. . .Congresswoman Maxine Waters (California-D) also demanded an end to the embargo. . .Representative Jose Serrano of the Bronx, who followed Waters to the podium. . .Luis Miranda of the Casa de las Americas, Rev. Lucius Walker of Pastors for Peace and the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, and the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, the former head of the National Council of Churches, were among the dignitaries who collectively introduced President Castro.
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