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FROM
CUBA
Housing
authorities in Cuba threaten to evict Baptist
minister
HAVANA, October 15 (www.cubanet.org) - Housing
authorities in Manzanillo, Granma province, have
ordered the eviction of a Baptist minister who
has been renting the contested home for 9 months.
Pedro Pérez Torres, 67, says he rented
the house with the approval of the Municipal Housing
Authority when he relocated to Manzanillo from
Santiago de Cuba to continue his pastoral work.
At that time, says Pérez, authorities even
gave him permission to remodel the house.
Last week, says Pérez, a housing official
by the name of Gilda showed up at his home and
told him the rental documentation was not in order
and that he would have to vacate within 72 hours.
Pérez conducts religious services in the
house for about 100 parishioners. He says he had
planned to officially found the church in December.
Pérez says he has the support of the house's
owner, who is in Havana. Housing authorities have
told him, he says, that the house could even be
confiscated from the owner.
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