Cuba pays tribute to Reverend Lucius Walker

Cuba paid tribute to US Reverend Lucius Walker (1939-2010), founder of Pastors For Peace interfaith organization, on the 11th anniversary of his death.

At the Martin Luther King Center, where Lucius Walker's ashes are kept, his daughter, Gail Walker, recalled on Tuesday her father's struggle for social justice in the United States in favor of the right of peoples to sovereignty and free self-determination.

She also highlighted her father's constant defense for human rights and spreading the truth about the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban people, and Fidel Castro.

On the ceremony Gail Walker said Pastors for Peace is very excited that this year it will be bringing  a friendship caravan to Cuba for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, and that there are many people in the US eager to come in November.

Lucius Walker led 21 friendship caravans from 1992 to send humanitarian assistance and medicines to Cuba, requesting no authorization from US authorities.

The tribute was attended by directors of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), the team of collegiate coordination of Martin Luther King Center, and officials from the Office of Religious Affairs of the Communist Party of Cuba.