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September 10, 2003
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JUDICIAL WATCH GETS VATICAN TO FINALLY SPEAK OUT AGAINST FIDEL CASTROS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Shortly Before JWs Private European Delegation, Catholic Church Publicly Announced It Would Not Get Involved In Cuban Political Prisoner Situation
(Miami, FL)Judicial Watch, the public interest group that has fought the tyranny of Fidel Castro, proudly announced that, thanks to recent meetings with top Vatican officials in Rome, the Catholic church is finally speaking out against the latest human rights violations committed by terrorist dictator Fidel Castro. It breaks a decade-long silence streak by the Catholic church regarding human rights on the island prison.
But thanks to JWs recent diplomatic mission to Rome, where Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman also met with U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Jim Nicholson, the church finally issued a strongly worded statement criticizing the Cuban governments return to hard-line ideology and asking the countrys authorities for a gesture of clemency toward these people who are in jail.
Judicial Watch represents two of the intellectualseconomist Martha Beatriz Roque and independent journalist Normando Hernandez--jailed earlier this year for opposing Castro and has fought hard for the release of all 75. Roques sister, Isabel Roque, was quoted in todays Miami Herald as saying: Its about time the church does something. Hopefully it will have an effect. These poor prisoners are living like animals.
JWs diplomatic mission, suggested and coordinated by U.S. State Department officials, visited six European countries and included lengthy meetings with top Vatican officials. The JW mission was headed by Klayman and provided compelling testimony from exiled Castro dissident Blanca Gonzalez, who is the mother of Normando Hernandez. JW friend and special presidential envoy, Otto Reich, visited the same European officials on behalf of the U.S. Government immediately following the JW delegation.
Besides this latest development from the Vatican, the effects of JWs mission have been incredible. For instance, Holland cut financial aide it has given Castro for years, Greece denied the Cuban dictator a visa to attend the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the EU Parliament called for the immediate release of political prisoners. This was all the result of JWs mission.
Thanks to JWs diplomatic European mission, the EU now has a better understanding that this is a humanitarian emergency and so does the Vatican. It is now apparent that the world will no longer stand by and allow this murderous dictator to continue torturing, killing and falsely imprisoning his people, Klayman said.
And it sure doesn't look to me like the Catholic Church wants to cut ties with terrorists like Fidel Castro either. It has to take an outsider to plead with the "authorities" of the church for God's sake.
What kind of church embraces communist ideologies?
Ans: The kind of church that ordains itself as "God" to overlord the sheeple with fear.
God Almighty will surely avenge those who destroy His people with fire just as He did with the Flood. And His time is drawing near. Isaiah 66: 15-17, 2 Peter 3:1-17