MIAMI, July 8 (CDN) — An evangelical pastor once jailed by the regime of Fidel Castro arrived in the United States from Cuba yesterday with his family under a special resettlement program for political refugees. The Rev. Carlos Lamelas, 50, his wife Uramis and two ....
December 22 (CDN) — Rev. Carlos Lamelas December 22 (Compass Direct News) – A court in Havana has found the Rev. Carlos Lamelas not guilty of “trafficking in human beings” but convicted him on previously unannounced charges of falsification of documents. Judges imposed ....
December 6 (CDN) — Rev. Carlos Lamelas December 6 (Compass Direct News) – A prosecuting attorney in Havana on Monday (December 4) recommended that the Rev. Carlos Lamelas be acquitted of all charges of trafficking in illegal emigrants. Those accusations had sent the ....
June 30 (CDN) — Carlos Lamelas and familyJune 30 (Compass Direct) – The Rev. Carlos Lamelas, pastor and former national president of the Church of God in Cuba, was unexpectedly freed from jail on Monday (June 26). The surprise move astonished and delighted many ....
March 31 (CDN) — Carlos Lamelas & familyMarch 31 (Compass Direct) – Today marks 40 days of imprisonment without charge for the Rev. Carlos Lamelas, a Cuban pastor jailed in Havana for allegedly aiding refugees who sought to emigrate illegally. Cuban authorities ....
March 2 (CDN) — March 2 (Compass) – Last week Cuban authorities jailed an evangelical pastor who served as national president of his denomination until last year, apparently on charges of aiding emigrants who sought to leave the country illegally. Relatives of the ....
September 29 (CDN) — September 29 (Compass) – Government regulations aimed at curbing the growth of Christian house churches in Cuba took force on September 22, sparking fears that evangelical Protestants on the island could face a period of heightened persecution. If ....
March 30 (CDN) — March 30 (Compass) — For over a decade, Cuba has endured shocking shortages of everything from food and clothing to jobs and transportation. However, the evangelical Christian church in Cuba has learned to survive, and even thrive, in the face of ....
December 14 (CDN) — (Compass) — Before 1991, the only churches legally permitted in Cuba were those built before the 1959 revolution. Since then, no new churches have been built. For many churches that have outgrown their buildings, the only solution is to meet in ....
November 15 (CDN) — (Compass) — Accusations of sexual abuse and severe corporal punishment lodged against teachers at missionary schools in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan state, northern India, have surfaced simultaneously with attempts to reconvert Christian families ....
June 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Every Sunday, as many as 90 people cram into Pastor Julio Balas’* apartment near Havana for worship services. Balas’ house church is illegal. For more than three years, he and other evangelical leaders in Alamar, a coastal high-rise ....
May 18 (CDN) — (Compass) - Four evangelical churches in a Havana suburb are faced with a dilemma. They can join three officially-sanctioned denominations in a state-approved project to construct a single worship building for churches now meeting illegally in ....
October 20 (CDN) — (Compass) - Jorge Ferrer and his wife, Ailin Leon, co-pastor the 1,000-member Evangelical League church in eastern Cuba. They returned home from an out-of-town trip to find that state security agents had seized the home they purchased legally from ....
August 18 (CDN) — (Compass) - Evangelicals in Havana’s Alamar suburb now forced to worship illegally in homes may have a novel chance to comply with Cuban laws governing churches and gain land and a building of their own. However, any of the eight denominations in ....
July 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Cuba’s children are hungry for God, and church laymen in a growing network are devoting their ministries to teaching them who He is. Children’s house churches are popping up around the island, especially in Havana. These churches are ....
July 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Flies cruising the ration room outnumber Cubans who, cards in hand, wait along two counters for their allotments. On a center shelf display behind each counter are small packets wrapped in brown paper. The shelves above and below it are ....
June 23 (CDN) — (Compass) - Government authorities closed a Baptist church in a Havana suburb on Easter Sunday. Members of the church must comply with the April 23 closure order or face fines or a court trial for contempt. The congregation has divided into five ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) - Nine years ago, Pastor Tito Granada* launched New Jerusalem* as a cell group in his two-bedroom apartment. Now on Sunday some 150 worshipers cram into the living room and children’s bedroom, a space not big enough for him, his wife and ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) - Pastor José Salazar* had heard rumors that Cuba’s government was granting isolated requests for new church buildings. So about three years ago his denomination launched into the paperwork. In all, his Baptist denomination was given ....
April 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Cuban evangelicals seem better off in the year since President Fidel Castro’s government allowed the first-ever \"Evangelical Celebration\" last May 30 to June 20. Pastors report that house churches and children’s ministries are ....
April 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - A Havana judge has found Fernando Collazo guilty of murdering his wife, Esther Nieto, the sister of Alejandro Nieto, Cuba’s Liga Evangelica (Evangelical League) denomination head and pastor of its main Havana church. In a one-day trial ....
