(Havana, Cuba June 2, 2009)   Cuban officials arrested a number of protestant preachers last week in the province of Las Tunas y Camagüey in Cuba, according to Cubanet (www.cubanet.org), as published on the Miami Herald website.  The pastors were threatened with jail on charges of being a danger to society.

Pastor Bernardo de Quesada and his wife Damaris Machín were arrested on the highway to Santa Cruz del Sur.  They were traveling to Camagüey for the trial of a dissident.

Pastor Luis Yoel Barbuena reports that the police chief in the area where he lives came to his home several times and said that he could be jailed for evangelizing and using audio equipment without a license.

Pastors Tomasa Victoria Ayala and Jorge Zellero also lost their livelihood when police closed the carpenter shop which they operated on their own.

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