쿠바 주교가 쿠바에는 종교의 자유가 없다고 말했다
 
 쿠바 피나르 델 리오의 호세 시로 곤잘레스 주교는 스페인신문에서 쿠바에서는 종교의 자유가 없으며 50년사이에 사제 500명을 잃었다고 말했다. 쿠바에서는 교회가 공공에 발표할 신문이나 t v기타 아무런 방법이 없으며 1961에 교회의 교육 병원을 정부가 빼앗아 감으로 써 교회는 모든 것을 잃었다고 밝혔다. (2006. 9. 13. 가톨릭통신사)
 
 BISHOP SAYS FREEDOM OF WORSHIP, BUT NO FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CUBA
 Madrid, Sep. 13, 2006 (CNA) - Bishop Jose Siro Gonzalez of Pinar del Rio Cuba told a Spanish newspaper this week that freedom of worship, but not freedom of religion, exits in Cuba and that in 50 years the Church has lost 500 priests.
 
 In an interview with “La Voz de Galicia,” the bishop revealed that the Church in Cuba does not have access “to any publicity system, no newspapers, television, nothing.” “We lost everything in 1961,” he recalled, when the government took away “our education, our care for the sick, in sum, everything except our seminary.”
 Church-State relations “have always been distant,” and although government leaders claim they “are very positive,” in reality “this is not the case.”
 “Fidel Castro has always known he is not going to bring in the Church, in past times he has not done it and even less so now,” said Bishop Gonzalez.
 
 He also explained that “the Cuban state is very jealous about aid,” and when a natural disaster occurs, “the State says no” to the Church, arguing that providing aid is its function. “The State is very jealous of the Church,” he added, and therefore charity work has to be one-on-one and carried out very carefully.
 
 Nevertheless, Bishop Gonzalez said, “The Church has achieved enormous prestige among the people, because it has been the one to care for the poor, to obtain medicine, to care for children with Down’s syndrome. The people see it as very straightforward charity,” he said.