NEWS
Between notes and stations
Just seven o’clock on the night of November 26, 2019, the sunsets of Havana’s Santa Metropolitana Catedral were opened, thus opening Viacrucis, exhibition by the renowned plastic creator Michel Pérez Pollo.
Month: November 2019
NEWS
From Europe to Havana: a unique concert in La Catedral
European Union Youth Orchestra performs unique concert at Havana Cathedral
SOCIETY
The stranger who remains
Cuba needs good teachers. But as the author of this article rightly says, “I hope that all bureaucrats who are linked to education on this earth will just realize that solving our problems is not found in hollow slogans and expressions; it’s about creating, that doesn’t exist, a body of missionary teachers and not docile repeaters.”
SOCIETY
Trick or treat?
With regard to the celebration by some Cubans of the Halloween festival just a few weeks ago, Word New proposes this reflection that, from the social, invites us to think about the need that we have as a people to preserve and rescue our traditions. However, as the author rightly says: “[…] joy, family communion, the right to celebrate whatever we want as long as it does not harm and respect one’s neighbour, are values that a truly humanist project should promote and applaud.”
NEWS
Singing to Havana in its half-millennium
A musical tour of five centuries of art in the capital city was the proposal of the Cultural Gala organized by the Chair of Sacred Music of the Padre Félix Varela Cultural Center and presented at the S.M.I. Cathedral of Havana on the night of November 17.
CULTURE
For the innocent
The young men were convicted of the false crime of desecration of the mortuary niche of the Spanish journalist Gonzalo Castañón, captain of volunteers, provocative and brave at all, who had died the previous year in Cayo Hueso, during a confrontation with cuban émigrés.
SOCIETY
Se TV mal
Those who work in the media have to ensure the quality of what they disseminate. As good, or true, or just as the ideological content they transmite, if the vehicle is silly, poorly written or careless, the message is lost, plus all the expense of generating it. On certain dilates of Cuban television goes this article by journalist Antonio López.
NEWS
From the Christ of Havana is blessed the city
On November 16th and on the occasion of the 500th years of Havana, cardinal archbishop Juan de la Caridad García blessed from the Christ of Havana to the City and the Archdiocese on its four terms (north, south, east and west), in a religious ceremony that impressed by the dynamism printed by young people.
NEWS
Evokes Havana’s founding Mass Church
The cardinal, evoking those who participated in Havana’s founding Mass at the foot of the ceiba, invited all Catholics to publicly manifest the faith of their Church, as they have for years in other public spaces: schools, workplaces, social events, etc.
NEWS
The 500s of St. Kitts
The procession for the 500 years of founding the town, presided over by Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, left the S.M.I. Cathedral.