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 A Cuban worker walk past Our Lady of Charity where 13 dissidents are demanding to deliever a message to the Pope.
March 15th, 2012
11:33 AM ET
Cuban group occupies church to seek audience with popeBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) - Thirteen Cubans Thursday refused to leave a Havana church where they had spent the last three days in hopes of gaining a meeting with Pope Benedict. The pope is due to travel to the island at the end of the month following a visit to Mexico. The group described itself as "dissidents" and refused to leave Our Lady of Charity Church after arriving there Tuesday, according to a news release from the Havana Archdiocese. The Partido Republicano de Cuba organization claimed the people occupying the church were members of the group. In a phone interview with CNN en Español Thursday, the group's director said the organization wants political prisoners released, greater access to information and freedom to travel. "We are not trying to tarnish the pope's visit. We are trying to get the church to serve as a mediator for dialogue between the Cuban government and the opposition," Vladimir Calderon said. "Really, we cannot find other routes, because the Cuban government, the regime, has not let us have access. ... That's why we haven't left the church. That's why we've done it like this, because there is no other way." Church officials are trying to negotiate with the group, the archdiocese said, calling the action an attempt to embarrass the church before the pope's visit. "No one has the right to turn temples into political trenches," the church release said. "It's clearly an illegitimate and irresponsible act." In the release, Church spokesman Orlando Marquez said other groups around the country had carried similar protests on Tuesday but then had left those churches So far, the church said it declined to ask the Cuban government to remove the group, the statement said. The church's statement was also published Thursday in Granma, the official newspaper of the communist party in Cuba. There was no visible police presence outside the church Thursday, and parishioners entered and left the building. An elderly woman at the entrance to the church said the press was not allowed to enter. In a statement Thursday, the chairwoman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee called on the pope to meet with critics of Cuba's government during his visit. "It is my hope that Pope Benedict will show his support for the Cuban people by meeting with peaceful dissident groups, including those practicing their faith while bringing attention to human rights violations," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said. –CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet and CNN en Español's Lucia Navarro contributed to this report. |
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Prayer really changes things .
You've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning...
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
Plus don't forget. The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!!
Prayer changes things.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!!! .........
Prayer changes things !
Proven !
Oops, I meant to post 'maybe proven, sometimes'. All I know is, my alarm went off, telling me to post again.
Whether by evil, the name thief or by good, the encouragement to prayer the message that "Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things" is being spread. Praise God
"Prayer changes things !
Proven !"
You've been proven a LIAR over and over again on this blog.
prayer cured my baldness.
When you begin your response with the amazing Truth that "prayer changes things" the lie you then post petty much becomes voided.
"the lie you then post petty much becomes voide"
You're the LIAR – More proof prayer doesn't work. An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
moron
"moron"
Now we can both agree that "Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things" is a moron oops but you are one in the same...so that mean you're a moron too.
For clarity It that takes the Lords name in vain is a proven moron
"For clarity It that takes the Lords name in vain is a proven moron"
You're a proven LIAR who is clueless and headed to hell.
Well, I suppose if you want to meet the Pope, a church is a good place to go.
BY the way, the pope doesn't care about human rights so that message will most certainly fall on deaf ears.
Prayer changes things.....
The walls are breathing again. The aliens will be coming for me again, very soon. I wrap my body in saran wrap, which makes me invisible. I see dead aardvarks – they speak to me, tell me prayer works.
Are the voices in my head too looud for you?
No it doesn't just scroll up and you'll see...An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
As the occupiers drink their own urine and play with the fat chick’s boobies, the Nazi pope is busy in Mexico examining toast and pancakes from different villages to determine if they are miracle manifestations of Christ. Our world is in good hands!
Ha! Good one. God supposedly created everything in under 7 days but now all he can do is create shabby renderings of his son on random pieces of pastry.
I call that underachieving. Or perhaps someone, in this case, some god, who has just given up.
"Happiness is knowing a flower will grow where u planted a seed" my agnostic father pointed out from a mural. I said loving your neighbor as yourself is de highest joy n "Charity begins @ home" so we can start loving each other in our house and help those outside it too. Thats what makes man great.
He is not on any flatbread.
Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things
Stuff changes things and stuff
Stuff, like, changes prayer and things and stuff, for sure, OMG.
Proved. Powerable.
Prayer is like a diaper – it needs to be changed, uh, or it's full of sh!t . . . uh . . . proven ca-ca . . .
Goshy, even I, Paris Hilton, am not dumb enough to produce the ignorant impossible stupidity of the Prayer Troll.
as long as the name thief keeps declaring "atheism is not healthy for children and other living things" we can ignore the drivel that follows and praise God that one Truth is being promoted.
Prayer changes dirty diapers.
"One Truth" is for infantile an'al retentives, who require the world all wrapped up in a neat little box, with neat little bow.
One Truth echoed of many
Umm...what? Did I just post that? Musta been drunk.
"Prayer changes things"
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!!!
When you print a Truth, like "Prayer changes things" then the lie that follows pales in comparison. Praise God
When you type a lie like "Prayer changes things", the truth blows the lie to smithereens. Particularly lies that are posted by trolls who can't produce any evidence for their claims.
All the "evidence" has long since been presented and accepted. That boat has long since sailed and does not need to return to pick you up. Look up the facts yourself if you are interested.
I'm hardly interested in anything you post, nitwit. If you really believed your crap, you'd post your own proof. You don't because there isn't any, you idiot.
@just sayin:” All the "evidence" has long since been presented and accepted. That boat has long since sailed and does not need to return to pick you up. “
So as a good Christian you’re saying that you have real, solid, verifiable evidence of Christianity that would convince a skeptic of the truth of your religion; but, you refuse to present it and instead condemn atheists to eternal hell unless they go dig for it themselves, even if the reason they disbelieve is that they have been digging for years and found none of the evidence you claim has “long since been presented and accepted”… why am I reminded of Herald Camping and bishop Long?
"Look up the facts"
OH, like these facts...An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
Atheism changes things
You are atheist filth.
Toad, you're a filthy toad. Back to the swamp.
The name has been stolen but the Truth Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things stands tall. Praise God
I just know that because it's my other handle
I get so confused
Nope. EVERY POST HERE WAS WRITTEN BY MEEEEEEEE! I AM THE NAME THIEF! I OWN THIS BLOG!!!
Everyone already knows your low character tom and guess what? No one cares.
Don't be silly. Half the time it's me.
No, it isn't, you lying sack. It's me. I'm the biggest troll here.
Bullsh!t. I croak louder than any of you. I'm the biggest troll.
"Low character"? Pray, oh holy one, do define a 'low character'. I can hardly wait.
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Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer has been shown to have no discernible effect towards what was prayed for.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you fat.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are exciting.
Prayer makes you secretively flatulent and embarrassed about it.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer gives you knobbly knees.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
Return to your vomit atheist filth.
Cross the road slowly, Toad.
*SQUISH-blap*
Ppppshhppppppatttttssss
Goosh.
*SPPPLAAATTT*
Whoops. Beg pardon. I just squashed all of just sayin's claims.
Goodness. Who knew it was so easy to discredit the dolt?
What? this is the communist workman's utopia of the western hemisphere.. the darling of the liberals. This is teh home base of Che Guevarra .. the homing beacon for Chavez and FARC and all of those nice communistas.. and they dare protest? Don't they realize they are getting everything for FREE courtesy of their government? They are all starving equally (that's justice, right?) No need for food ..Fidel let's them starve (Cuba si, Yankee no). This is how Greece and Spain and France can solve their problems. Just let them starve. Re-elect OUR fearless leader - he wants to take you there .. he wants you to have no gasoline (no food), no companies (no jobs), no mortgages (no houses), no health insurance (no health care) ... but you got him (the Messiah) .. he's gonna make us like Cuba! Cuba si .. economy no!
Just what those poor Cubans need. Another psychotic old man who wants's to "guide" them.
They should put the Pope and Fidel in a bull fighting ring with their arms tied together and a razor blade each.
It would be more fun than American Idol
William – My money is on the Pope.
What money? You don't have two nickels to rub together, you fraud.
You're right Tom, I'm broke after paying your mom for the that BJ last night...
Nec roph iliac, are you?
this whole waiting inside of a church for the nazi to come and "help" seems rather eerily similar to me – anyone else?
he is coming to purify them! 🙂
Prayer changes things
Wait...I mean, things change prayer?
Someone new is spreading the Truth that Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things. Everything else it posts is a lie but the heading is true and more people will see it. It does not take away from the Truth but rather reinforces the power of prayer. Praise God
I forgot my meds again. Praise the Lord.
Meds change things.
Tom, Tom is a LIAR. He did NOT write all these posts.
I need my nitroglycerin, STAT.
Did so.
Nuh-uh.
Yuh-huh, just sayin, you wad of pus.
Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things,.
I admit, I have no comeback.
I just rely on lies.
No.... it was I who wrote all of your posts! I am you and you are part of me! I am the Almighty! I AM THE NARSHLAUG!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh oh why did they change the picture?
The fat chick got mad.
just sayin got mad? How could you tell? Did the veins in its neck start pulsating? Or did the layers of fat obscure that?
They always find beautiful women to put in their pictures.
Cuba needs a "Cuban Spring" in order to become a democracy. B-16 isn't going to be of any help in that regard.
They need a perestroika
The Arab Spring was so successful in bringing about democracy wasn't it?
OK, let us go with another "American Revolution"!!!
SPA Knight
So throwing off tyrants is a bad thing now?
They shall have the theocracy they want, at least for a while.
Alas, you shall not, at least for a while.
But wait ..have some respect ... Fidel got rid of Batista. He got rid of casinos and banks .. and gangsters. He got rid of private companies that e.x.p.l.o.i.t.e.d. Cubans for sugar p.r.o.f.i.t.s. He got rid of jobs, food, money, banks, loans, cars, gasoline, home repairs, debt, doctors, hospitals, dentists .. all of them exploiters (charged money - not free - shame). Castro has been a savior (a "messiah") .. they don't need God or a church .. Fidel gave them everything they have (nothing). They are so poor that have not got r.a.t.s or c.o.c.k.r.o.a.c.h.e.s ... he got rid of them too.
'Cept for me. I done been prayin' all the time, but I got de rickets anyhow. Syphilis, too.
I caught it from just sayin. Tol' me it was OK that there wuz white crap oozing. Done said it was nachral.
I been sick ever since.
Take the fat chick in there too. Keep things interesting while you are waiting for the nazi.
That chick ain't fat.
That is not a chick, that is Hercules!
Hey, what happened to the fat chick?? Oh well, take the dude in I guess.