(16 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Havana, Cuba – 08 February 2024
1. The bells toll in Catholic churches
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Havana, Cuba – 16 February 2024
2. Muslims at mosque, some offering prayer
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Havana, Cuba – 04 February 2024
3. Buddhists chant mantras
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Havana, Cuba – 16 February 2024
4. Jews celebrate the Sabbath
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Havana, Cuba – 07 February 2024
5. Various of Santeria devotees dancing and playing drums
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Havana, Cuba – 14 February 2024
6. Yoruba Association historian Gloria Esperanza paying homage to Afro-Cuban deities and leaving offerings to the goddess of the ocean
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Matanzas, Cuba – 03 February 2024
7. LGBTQ+ Christians praying
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Santiago de Cuba – 11 February 2024
8. Various of pilgrims traveling to the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Caridad
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Havana, Cuba – 08 February 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monsignor Ramon Suarez, Chancellor of the archdiocese of Havana:
“Cubans are believers, but sometimes they believe in everything.”
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Havana, Cuba – 13 February 2024
10. “Religious freedom” says book on a table
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maximiliano Trujillo, Philosophy Professor at Havana University
“In Cuba, it’s not uncommon that someone goes to meet a babalao (Santeria high priest) in the morning and can visit a Pentecostal temple in the afternoon, and at night goes to Mass – and doesn’t see any type of conflict in its spirituality.”
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Havana, Cuba – 14 February 2024
12. Various of historian Gloria Esperanza paying homage to Afro-Cuban deities
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Esperanza Reyes, historian of the Yoruba Association.
"We have made this offering year after year in the 59 years we have been celebrating with the saint."
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Havana, Cuba – 07 February 2024
14. Various of Afro-Cuban dancer Susie Stuart Castellanos dancing to the rhythm of drums
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Susie Stuart Castellanos, Afro-Cuban dancer:
“I have so much faith in my saint, in my guides and my protectors.”
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Havana, Cuba – 16 February 2024
16. Various of Jews celebrating the Sabbath
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Betina Acosta, Teacher, Israeli folk dance:
"We are Jews, that sense of belonging that is my identity in spite of living here (in Cuba) as I reflect myself in Israel."
18. Various of Jews joined hands in a Israeli dance with Cuban rhythms
19. Various of Muslims in prayer
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ahmed Aguero, mosque leader:
“We’re pioneers in spreading the religion (here). People don’t know about the religion, people are amazed. People have a bad impression of Muslims, (they fear) that we’re bad or even terrorists, until they meet us and they learn about the real practice of our religion."
21. Mosque leader Ahmed Aguero and Ubakar Bari, migrant from Guinea-Bissau, in restaurant
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ubakar Bari, migrant from Guinea-Bissau:
“I never thought I’d find a community like this in Havana.”
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Havana, Cuba – 04 February 2024
23. Mediations in Soka Gakkai group
24 . Various of Twin brothers Yasnel and Yasmel meditating in Soka Gakkai group
25. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yasmel Quintana, Buddhist practitioner
“(Buddhism) became our first and only religion, where we felt identified and decided to grow as a person and spiritually.”
26. Various of members of the group singing in Japanese
STORYLINE:
But 65 years later, religion seems to be everywhere in Cuba, in dazzling diversity.
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