A Christian religious freedom defender has been released from prison in Cuba, after being held for the second time in four months following his investigations i Camagüey state authorities summoned R...
Two churches have been demolished and at least three pastors arrested in Cuba in a crackdown on an unregistered network of Protestant churches. Police officers and security agents blocked off roads i...
A religious freedom activist was detained and threatened when he returned to Cuba following a visit to the United States, which included advocacy meetings arran Felix Yuniel Llerena Lopez, 20, left C...
A Christian freedom charity is urging the Cuban government to stop "unwarranted interference" after a pastor was summoned by police three times in one week. Pastor Alain Toledano Valiente, leader of ...
The authorities in Cuba were forced to stop tearing down a church after protesters staged a sit-in. Cuban authorities were forced to halt the demolition of an Assemblies of God church in th...
A prominent religious freedom fighter in Cuba has been detained by police for the second time in four months for being "counter-revolutionary". Christian Ricardo Fernandez Izaguirre handed himself in...
A large church in eastern Cuba is the latest to be destroyed in the Cuban governments' crackdown on religion in the country. Emanuel Church, affiliated to the Apostolic Movement, an u...
A national leader of the Apostolic Movement in Cuba has been banned from travelling, according to a Christian anti-persecution charity. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says Reverend Yiorvis Brav...
On 24th February Cuba goes to the polls to vote on a new constitution. In the hours before, pressure has been mounting on Christian leaders to instruct their co The Cuban government has accused churc...
The Cuban government's decided not to confiscate a church they originally intended to. The National Communist Party in Cuba have now told the Maranatha First Baptist Church that they will be allowed ...
A Church in Cuba has been demolished by government officials and its Reverend threatened with seven years imprisonment for speaking publicly. The Strong Winds Ministry Church in Las Tunas, east...
A Christian anti-persecution charity has received reports that government officials in Cuba have issued an order to demolish all churches in one city Christian Solidarity Worldwide says au...
The Cuban government has told a church that it is going to review an order from local authorities to confiscate church property. Officials took property from Maranatha First Baptist Church, in Holgui...
Pope Francis has met the Cuban President Raul Castro at the Vatican. Mr Castro is said to have wanted to visit the pontiff to thank him for his work restoring relations between Cuba and the United St...
A pastor in Cuba is set to testify about ongoing violations of freedom of religion or belief at a hearing by US House of Representatives on Friday. The Baptist pastor and religious freedom activist, ...
A pastor in Cuba is waiting to hear the outcome of his appeal against a sentence of one year under house arrest. Rev Juan Carlos Núñez Velázquez, from eastern Cuba, was found guilty last mon...
A north Cumbrian church has been identified as being on the site of the first ever recorded settlement of African people in Britain. It follows the discovery in 1934 of a stone in Beaumont which reco...
A church group in India have issued instructions to parish priests and councils to ensure that new churches are built without overly lavish luxuries. The New Indian Express reported that the Sy...
Cyclone Idai, one of the most intense tropical cyclones to hit Africa, has left its mark six months on, with 77,000 people still in displacement camps. The storm hit Mozambique, on the south eastern ...
The Cypriot Interior Minister has said the country would prefer it if the 300 refugees it is willing to take in are Christians. Socratis Hasikos was speaking as hundreds of thousands of refugee...
