{"id":31547,"date":"2012-03-24T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mcclatchy_u-s-_panel_on_religious_freedom_reports_cuban_violations\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:06:03","slug":"mcclatchy_u-s-_panel_on_religious_freedom_reports_cuban_violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31547","title":{"rendered":"(McClatchy) U.S. panel on religious freedom reports Cuban violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week before Pope Benedict XVI visits Cuba, a U.S. government panel on religious freedom has alleged &#8220;serious&#8221; violations on the island, including arrests of pastors and &#8220;pressure to prohibit democracy and human rights activists&#8221; from church activities.<\/p>\n<p>The violations also include government &#8220;interference in church affairs&#8221; and controls on &#8220;religious belief and practices through surveillance and legal restrictions,&#8221; said the annual report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serious religious freedom violations continue in Cuba despite some improvements,&#8221; noted the report, issued Wednesday, which also listed a number of arrests and pressures on individual religious leaders, all of them Protestant pastors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/03\/21\/2202804\/us-panel-on-religious-freedom.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week before Pope Benedict XVI visits Cuba, a U.S. government panel on religious freedom has alleged &#8220;serious&#8221; violations on the island, including arrests of pastors and &#8220;pressure to prohibit democracy and human rights activists&#8221; from church activities. The violations<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31547\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,206,620,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-caribbean","category-cuba","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}