Ten-year anniversary of Gospel radio broadcasts

José Aurelio Paz, HAVANA, Cuba, April 30, 2003

 The Gospel on the Move radio program, the only religious broadcast in mass communication media Taxi Heathrow Airport in Cuba, celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

A recent survey from the official CMBF station, National Musical Radio, that broadcasts the program the first Sunday of each month from 8:00 to 10:00 pm, said that it is among the top 15 programs according to listeners. 

The program was authorized in April 1993 as a concrete result of improving Church-State relations after an April 1990 meeting between Cuban President Fidel Castro and 74 Evangelical leaders.

Sponsored by the Cuban Council of Churches (CIC in Spanish) and produced by Jose Aurelio Paz, communications director for the CIC, the program has given all Cuban Protestant and Evangelical denominations the opportunity to publicly express themselves.

The television broadcast of the meeting between the president and Protestant leaders opened up access to mass media, something that had been closed since the triumph of the Revolution when there were initial confrontations between the Church and the recently instated government.

Pastors from a broad religious spectrum (Adventists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, the Assemblies of God, among others) have used this space to make statements and to proclaim the Gospel.

Some Latin American Evangelical leaders, such as Bishop Federico Pagura from Argentina and Professor Carmelo Alvarez, of the disciples for Christ Church from Puerto Rico /United States, have been invited to share the microphone on the Gospel on the Move Program.

Recently, during a brief meeting between those carrying out the program and the director of the CMBF station and the CIC a new transmitter was installed that will allow the frequency to reach all areas of the island.

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