The International Institute for Religious Freedom just published the last volume of the International Journal for Religious Freedom: “Responding to Persecution” (Vol 10 Issue 1/2 2017) Dennis P. Petri contributed to the journal with the article “Resilience to persecution: a practical and methodological investigation“. In the article, the author analyzes how religious minorities respond to …
The Inter-American Commission has granted Yandier García Labrada precautionary protection measures because they believe that he finds himself in a situation of serious and urgent risk of irreparable damage to his rights because of his imprisonment in Cuba. He is an activist with the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and has been deprived of his liberty …
On January 22, after ten days in detention and being held incommunicado, Cuban pastor Karel Parra Rosabal was released from a police unit in Jobabo, Las Tunas. The pastor was arrested after a violent search at his home in front of his wife and children, under the crime of “hoarding.” In the process, the police …
Oscar Kendri Fial Echavarría, a young Christian in Santiago de Cuba, will be prosecuted for refusing to enter military service. The man states that he refuses because holding a gun goes against the Christian principles he believes in. A military sector chief went to visit his house to hand him his summons and told him that he …
Cuban pastor Alain Toledano Valiente reported through his Facebook account that someone had broken into his home on November 8. When his wife and daughter were alone at home, a man shouted at the house and tried to tear off the entrance gate. He also reported that this was not the first time incidents like these …
The Cuban authorities have demolished the church of the Assemblies of God in Abel Santamaría, a municipality of Santiago de Cuba, after months of negotiations. This is another example of the religious intolerance of the Cuban government. The official statement of the authorities claims that the church and other houses in the area had to …
In October 2020, Religious Freedom for Cuba reported that the Jehovah Shalom Church in East Holguin has been shut down. According to the organization the pastors Uberney Aguilar and Yalina Proenza have received threats from the Government and Communist Party officials at least 6 times. The threats demanded them to stop their work for the …
OLIRE had the pleasure to be part of the Online Conference on Human Development organized by the Unequal World Research Center, IPSEC, and UN Liaison Office for IRLA and SDA. Within the framework of the conference theme Human Development in the context of Current Global Challenges, OLIRE presented the theme “The limitations on religious activities …
While facing the severity of the economic crisis on the island, a situation that has gotten worse due to COVID-19, civil society organizations and Christian denominations have tried to provide spiritual and material help. However, the authorities have taken advantage of the restrictions imposed in the context of the pandemic to intensify the harassment against …
Friday 29 May 2020: 9:45 (Amsterdam time) Online (open to the public) The starting point for this research was the empirical observation that a number of characteristic aspects of religious persecution in Latin America are insufficiently recognized by existing theoretical frameworks and data collection tools. Adopting a human security perspective, Petri develops a methodology that …
