HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 21 (ACN) The President of the Cuban Council of Churches, Reverend Joel Ortega Dopico highlighted on Wednesday in Havana the full religious liberties and action of the churches on the island as a right achieved by the Revolution.
In statements to ACN, Ortega Dopico said that since the 1960's Cuban churches questioned what would their mission be in a socialist society and since then they have had total religious liberties.
Churches are fully inserted and are socially included, an important element that can be demonstrated to the world, he said during the second forum of the Pensando Americas (Thinking About the Americas) Cuban civil society held on Wednesday in Havana as part of the preparatory process of the 8th Summit of the Americas.
Dopico Ortega, who participated in the forums of Cuban civil society during the 7th Summit in Panama, 2015, said that there is unity among the churches, religions and State on the island which allows the development of a more just society.
We will take a proposal of a different civil society that is not the opposition in Cuba, to the forums in Lima, Peru next month, but an active participant in the life of society, he said.
For Cuban religion, civil society and State look towards a common horizon, full development in which all contribute to achieve the social wellbeing.
We have a different, alternative model and we must show it in Peru, he concluded.
The second national forum denounced the media and political campaigns against the elected democratic governments.
The meeting coincided with the Hemispheric Dialog in Lima between the 28 approved thematic coalition and the representatives of the regional governments.
Nos reservamos el derecho de no publicar los comentario que incumplan con las normas de este sitio