N.Z. Churches Give £500 To Aid Cuba
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, June 30.
The National Council of Churches in New Zealand has made a grant of £5OO to the Cuban Council of Evangelical Churches to assist the work it is doing there, the general secretary of the National Council of Churches (the Rev. D. M. Taylor) said today.
He was addressing a meeting of more than 100 Anglican, Methodist, Congregational and Baptist theological students on the council in the world ecumenical movement
“There are bound to be people who will think it a terrible thing to send money into a Communist country,” he said.
“But ironically, it was the United States Government’s opposition to communism that made the grant necessary.
"Until recently when the United States Government stopped all money going into Cuba, the American churches gave thousands of dollars a year toward the missions in Cuba.”
Mr Taylor said that as a result of this policy the Churches in Cuba had begun to find themselves in serious financial difficulties and had appealed for help from the World Council of Churches, which in turn had asked the N.C.C. to contribute.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30481, 1 July 1964, Page 16
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