Our faith calls us to honor the dignity and self-determination of every people, including the people of Cuba. Cuba has long been plagued by the stranglehold the United States has placed on it with the embargo and sanctions levied for the past 60 years. Now, with damage to infrastructure from Hurricane Melissa in 2025, mosquito-borne viruses infecting 1/3 of the population, and a new set of sanctions impacting the ability of the Cuban government to buy oil, Cuba faces a severe humanitarian crisis.  However, instead of offering support to our neighboring country, the U.S. Department of State and some members of Congress are setting their sights on Cuba to bring about regime change.

It is our responsibility as people of faith and constituents of the United States to tell our elected officials, “Hands off Cuba!” Write to your congressional members today to tell them you don’t want a Cuba incursion.

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The United States government does not supersede the will of the Cuban people. After watching the U.S. intervene in Venezuela in January and in Iran in late February, there is no reason to trust the methods by which the U.S. would go about regime change in Cuba. Each nation’s people have the right to self-determination.

Lovely Lane United Methodist Church holds deep ecumenical partnerships with Cuban churches and organizations as we, the church, seek to love our neighbor and partner together in faith.

The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church has stated in a letter dated January 7, 2026, (in response to the U.S. government action in Venezuela):

“We join our Methodist siblings across Latin America and the Caribbean in condemning all acts of violence, military aggression, and violations of national sovereignty. As followers of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, we reject every ideology and action that diminishes the sacred worth of human life or deepens cycles of fear, instability, and injustice.

 

As our Social Principles guide us: ‘The church deplores war and all other forms of violent conflict and urges the peaceful settlement of all disputes. We yearn for the day when there will be no more war and people will live together in peace and justice. We reject the use of war as an instrument of foreign policy and insist that every peaceful and diplomatic means of resolution be exhausted before the start of armed conflicts.”

Violence cannot heal violence. We denounce all forms of dictatorship, oppression, and assaults on human dignity—wherever they occur and by whomever they are perpetrated.”

Beyond the moral call to treat our Cuban neighbors with love, we are hampering the health of this region by continuing this embargo. Cuba’s biomedical field and medical mission staff have helped the peoples of neighboring nations by sharing their knowledge and continuing to develop necessary medical advances that we in the United States do not share due to our own stubbornness.

Congress, and Congress alone, has the power to declare war. S.J.Res. 124 would prevent the President from taking military action in Cuba without congressional approval. Congress must uphold checks and balances and stop dangerous executive overreach. Write to your congressional members today