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April 02, 2013

Former Cuban political prisoner Omar Gude finds new home in United States

Christian Solidarity Worldwide has some good news about Cuban pastor and former political prisoner Omar Gude Perez:

Omar and Kenia Gude Perez, along with their children, have arrived safely in the USA. It’s been an incredible journey for them. 

Omar, a leader of a fast-growing charismatic church movement, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison back in 2008. The trumpedup charges against him were an attempt to disguise the government’s efforts to silence his outspokenness on persecution.

The US Government had granted the family asylum in July 2011, after Omar was barred from working as a church leader. However, the Cuban Government refused to let the whole family leave the country together for another year and a half. The wait has been traumatic for the whole family, but now, finally, they have a new start.

(Photo: CSW)

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