In 2007 Messrs. Hiltz, Schori and Bird went on a jaunt to Cuba.

I wonder if they have read Against All Hope, Armando Valladares’ account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro’s tropical gulag spent as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his Christian faith kept him from abandoning hope during the most evil treatment.

Cuba does have a penchant for persecuting Christians: which is why these 3 were quite safe.