Havana, Cuba, Feb 21, 2012 / 16:05 pm
The Christian Life Movement in Cuba launched a new Facebook page called “Waiting for Benedict XVI” to promote the pontiff's upcoming visit and defend the right of all Cubans to welcome him.
“We have created the group so that those in power in Cuba or those aspiring to power who have access to the internet know that we are defending the right of our Pastor to visit us and to bring to the suffering Cuban people the message of freedom, peace and reconciliation,” Christian Life Movement spokesman Regis Iglesias Ramirez told CNA on Feb. 17.
Ramirez, a former prisoner of conscience living in Spain since 2010, said the silence surrounding the Pope’s March 25-28 visit on the part of the state-run media and even the local Church is “striking.”
“Only loud and extremist voices against the visit from inside and outside the island are being heard. This is sad and dangerous,” he said.