Havana, January 5 (RHC)-- According to the president of the Federation of Spiritualists in Havana, Doctor of Sciences Enrique Alemán, the Platform for Interreligious Dialogue in Cuba is important in the daily exercise for unity and peace in the alliance of citizens.

In statements to the Prensa Latina news agency, he considered that a united society -- regardless of its religious creed or atheism -- stands out as the maxim of the structure, born in the heat of the international campaign for the return to the island of the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States.

Alemán said that the activities for the liberation of Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and René González united believers from various regions of the world.

Alemán, coordinator of the Platform, participated in an international cultural and religious anthropology event dedicated to the late South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.

Inaugurated by Eusebio Leal, Havana’s historian, the event also brought together members from other faiths, such as the pastor Ofelia Miriam Ortega, who considered that today we do not live in times of a single religion, but of religious pluralism.

The Platform for Interreligious Dialogue in Cuba brings together leaders and believers from various religious denominations, including Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Spiritualists and others, and focuses much of its work on the struggle for world peace and the unity of the people of Cuba.