CUBA. – In recent years, many Cubans who arrived in Miami have had an important life change, not only because they live in another country, but because they have been born again by abandoning their Santeria practices and dedicating themselves to Christ. As in most Latin American countries, African religions are followed by many people.
In the Caribbean, they are called Santeria and Voodoo. Their practices have proven to be very similar to those practiced in Brazil, which is known as macumba and umbanda. The priests are called “babalaos”, a word from the Yoruba dialect that means “father of secrets”, but in Brazil it is called “holy father”.
This week, the CiberCuba site published a video showing how one of these babalaos named Joel Rodríguez responded to the invitation to give his life to Christ. Although it is not a Christian site, it gave a space for the material published by the Church “New Hope In Christ Ministry”, frequented by the former witch.
“Break it up,” “released” and “in Jesus’ name” are the most repeated phrases in the material at about four minutes long. In the end, the man is hugged and says he is relieved because he was freed from what imprisoned him, and that everything is “a lie” and a scam.
Shortly after, the video shows the testimony of José Rodríguez, a Santeria priest who decided to get rid of everything that connects him with ancient pagan practices.
In the video where Rodríguez’s testimony is recounted, it is emphasized that Cuba is not going to “walk forward”, since the majority of the island’s residents are practitioners of the Afro-Cuban religion. According to him, what does not generate “nothing good.”
Last year CiberCuba published another video of this type in which a break with Afro-Cuban religions is presented and the destruction of objects used in spells and invocations is demonstrated.
The church to which José Rodríguez has subscribed is “New Hope In Christ Ministry”, which since 2003 settled in the city of Hialeah, at that time with Pastors Edgar and Mónica Ordóñez, who were sent to that city, according to its website “for the purpose of beginning a work with the goal of establishing and expanding the kingdom of God.”
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