Reverend Lucius Walker remembered in Cuba

Five years have passed since Lucius Walker’s death and Cuba still recalls the message released by Pastors for Peace: “With an incommensurable sadness we make public that our beloved leader Reverend Lucius Walker has died this morning”.

He died in New York at the age of 80. He was close friend of the Cuban Revolution and its legendary leader Fidel Castro.

He will be always remembered among Cubans, as well as his leadership in every solidarity caravan that he organized to help this island.

A pastor coherent with good things, paramount activist against the U.S. blockade. He traveled all North America gathering donations, describing Cuba’s reality and facing Washington’s ban to visit Cuba.

Lucius was born on August 3^rd, 1930. He was also a tireless fighter for the freedom of the Cuban Five incarcerated in the U.S.

He was one of the founders of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), created in 1967. From 1973-1978 he was Associate General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.

Pastors for Peace organizes US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravans and they have broken the U.S. blockade regulations systematically to bring Cuban people computers, buses, and medicines.

Reverend Lucius Walker’s ashes will rest in Havana according to his last will. They will be found at the Martin Luther King Memorial.

Cubasi Translation Staff