Yoaxis Marcheco Suarez, wife of Cuban Baptist pastor and religious freedom activist the Revd Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso, was arrested in the town of Remedios in the province of Villa Clara on 16 October.
During her arrest, Suarez was pressured to sign an Official Warning that can be used as justification for future arrests and criminal charges, but she refused to do so. She was also told to stop having contact with ‘counter-revolutionary’ elements or risk imprisonment. Pastor Barroso similarly resisted pressure to sign an Official Warning on 8 October.
India: discrimination
World Watch Monitor
India should not extend government job and education assistance to the country’s poorest Christians, India’s social justice minister, Thavar Chand Gehlot, said on 10 October.
He said there are no Christians among India’s Dalits – a name given to the country’s most impoverished and marginalised citizens, sometimes called ‘untouchables’. He also [and confusingly] contended that extending government benefits to poor Christians would encourage poor Hindu Indians to convert in hopes of qualifying for the programmes.
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