Cubans Flock To Evangelism To Fill Spiritual Vacuum

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Cubans Flock To Evangelism To Fill Spiritual Vacuum

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130108154&f=1002&sc=igg2

by Nick Miroff

October 8, 2010

When Cuban President Raul Castro met with the country's Catholic Church leaders this summer and agreed to free dozens of political prisoners, it was a major boost to an institution facing increased competition for Cuban worshippers.

The island has undergone a spiritual revival since the communist government eased religious persecutions in the 1980s. But the fastest-growing practice today may be one that arrived decades ago with American missionaries.

On a recent humid Sunday night at the Buenas Nuevas Pentecostal Church, rows of plastic chairs are packed, leaving some to watch from the sidewalk outside.

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1. Unaffiliated evangelicals and holy rollers + free marketeers

Go together.

They're a perfect equation because they preach against
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and all the other justice first Prophets.

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2. and all spiritually bankrupt

what a coincidence

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3. neocons, fundies, free marketeers are the IranContra trifecta

against Latin America and the Caribbean.