Cuban Communist regime banned Havana Christians from celebrating traditional, strict stations at Cuban outlets on Sunday It has been reported.
“We will here inform you that the strict station of Cross has been announced and prepared by Vicariaite from Linea to Lateran at 6pm on Sunday tomorrow, Palm Sunday. It has been suspended as the authorities have not approved it.” announcement On social media over the weekend.
Catholics celebrate the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ during their Holy Week. This is a compliance event that will be held from April 13th (Palm Sunday) to April 20th (Easter Sunday).
The Palm Sunday celebration commemorating his arrival in Jerusalem of Jesus Christ’s arrival before he was crucified involves the blessings and distribution of palm branches used to welcome Jesus Christ when he enters Jerusalem.
The station of the Cross, which Cuban communists banned the Vedadian parish from celebrating, is a Catholic procession commemorating the last day of Jesus Christ on Earth before its resurrection on Easter Sunday. Some Christians observe this practice on Good Friday, marking Jesus’ crucifixion. Neither the Castro regime nor the Sacred Heart of Jesus’ Parish explains the reasons behind the prohibition of the Vedado procession.
Last week, Father Zayas Diaz shared photos of the procession rehearsal before being cancelled by the Castro administration. The queue is perfect list of events planned by the Archdiocese of Havana during this year’s Holy Week in the Cuban capital.
Posted by Leicester Raphael Zayas Diaz Above Friday, April 11th, 2025
The Sunday ban marks the second year in a row when the Castro regime banned Catholics from celebrating the national Holy Week procession. in 2024the administration banned Christians in Havana and several other cities from celebrating that year’s station of the cross and other Holy Week activities. Before the ban in 2023 and 2024, the cross-line station in Vedad was reportedly celebrated uninterrupted for over 11 years and suspended due to the Uhan coronavirus pandemic.
Father Zayas Diaz when the Castro administration banned the procession for Holy Week in 2024 I said ACI Prensa, Spanish branch of Catholic News Agency; The ban appeared to be motivated by fears of peaceful anti-communist protests like those in the city in Bayamo and Santiago de Cuba. March 2024.
Outlet Diario de Cuba based in Madrid It has been reported On Sunday, Father Leicester Rafael Zayas Diaz is a critic of the voices of the Castro administration. between September 2023 Mass Zayas Diaz mentioned Cuba’s ongoing severe humanitarian and immigration crisis that prompted hundreds of thousands of Cubans to flee communism. He also expressed concern that he was fighting on behalf of the Cubans. Russia In the continuous invasion of Ukraine. Zayas Diaz was one of the Catholic priests who reportedly supported the Cubans during the historic wave of anti-communist protests in Cuba in July 2021.
“The procession demand is not the initiative of the parish priests. It is the fruit of the desire of the parishioners, and therefore those who want to publicly express their faith, hoping to bring religion into their neighborhoods, streets, homes and everyday life.
“Denying it as a punishment for a parish priest is, in addition to absurdity, a violation of religious freedom. The parish priest is merely a spokesman for the desires of the people. He is the one who demands it from a capable authority, but that is not his personal desire,” he continued.
In March, the USCIRF released it Report Regarding Cuba’s unstable religious freedom state, it suggested that the US government would redesign Cuba and redesign it as a “country of special concern” to engage in the “systematic, continuous and continuous religious infringement” that occurred in 2024.
Christian K. Calzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
