When Government Hates Christmas: Sara's Stories of Repression in Cuba, Saudi Arabia

Sara Carter Show

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Are you excited for Christmas? Are you traveling? What kind of food, decorations, and other traditions do you enjoy? And are you grateful for the freedom to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ?

We should be very thankful, because in some countries, Christmas and anything else associated with Christianity are forbidden. Sara has experienced this and so has her mom.

Today, Sara shares these stories with you. First, she talks about her mother's experience in Cuba. A devout Catholic, her mom watched the Cuban revolution unfold and how Castro and his Marxist allies did everything they could to crush Christianity.

Then Sara tells us about living in Saudi Arabia while her father worked there and the shocking moment the Saudi government found out about a Christmas celebration she was part of as a child.

Wherever you are this holiday season, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a joyous celebration of Christ's birth.

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Time Stamps:

0:05 I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
4:11 Christmas under communism
9:03 You need to meet some Cubans
10:46 Under Fidel Castro
13:16 Marxists hate Christ
14:45 It was the same in Saudi Arabia
17:02 Our church service was shut down!
20:41 We could lose it all
23:05 Communities are important
25:52 This Christmas
26:38 Texas Christmas
29:49 Show Close

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0:39.0	with your family with your friends with your dogs with your cats with your friends, with your dogs, with your cats, with your birds, whatever it is, I hope
0:46.0	that wherever you are on this beautiful holiday season, this Christmas holiday, that you are spending time just getting back to what you
0:56.6	love to do and taking a break from the craziness of this world. I know things are so upside down for so many of us right now. It's hard to believe that you know we're almost I mean
1:08.7	we're almost at the new year, right? So much has changed in our country. We have faced so much together as a nation.
1:17.6	And as I look back on the holiday, I think about all of these amazing beautiful moments that I spent with my family,
1:26.0	even in some of the craziest parts of the world.
1:29.0	I mean I celebrated Christmas as a child in Saudi Arabia in Alabama versus California. Now I'm in Texas. I was
1:38.7	in Alexandria, Virginia. My mother celebrated in Cuba. I celebrated one time in Mexico. One time I
1:48.9	actually did a USO tour and we did the Christmas holiday tour that was with Admiral Mullen under the
1:56.4	Obama administration believe it or not when I was working at the Pentagon and
1:59.6	we traveled overseas with the USO in the winter and it was just absolutely amazing
2:06.9	we were in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Italy, it was an incredible flight on Air Force II, believe it or not.
2:15.0	I just, I've had some pretty remarkable memories and experiences in my life that I wouldn't trade for anything.
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