Christian children are particularly being targeted by authorities in Communist Cuba, according to the latest report from the independent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Researchers found ‘community officials discriminate against Christians in employment and schools, including denying some Christian children food in schools’.
In 2017, Cuban authorities prosecuted a church pastor and his wife for seeking to home school their children so they could receive a Christian education. The pastor was charged with ‘acting contrary to the normal development of a minor’ and sentenced to one year of correctional labour, which was reduced to six months of house arrest on condition his children attended a government school. The pastor was also banned from leading his church and ordered to take up a low-paid government job checking the local water supply for disease.
