Domingo Fernando Suarez

Domingo Fernandez was sent to Cuba when he was 14 years for their Catholic parents to work for an uncle who was a merchant. When he was 20 years old, she bought a Bible and began to read it with great interest. This led to his conversion without direct human influence. Some time later joined a Baptist church in Havana. When he was called to the ministry in 1932, attended the Latin American Biblical Seminary in Costa Rica, where the reviewers of the Bible would meet in 1951. After graduating, he returned to his native country (Spain) as an evangelist missionary, a risky endeavor in a land still under a strongly medieval tension, reminiscent of the Inquisition. Spain became embroiled in a civil war at this time, and he was recruited to the army of General Franco against his will, where he suffered death threats for disobeying the order to attend mass. He barely escaped death after a committee of eight Catholic priests recommended to the authorities that Fernandez be "eliminated". Two years after the end of conflict, Fernandez returned to Cuba. He pastored two Baptist churches and taught at the Baptist seminary in Havana. For several years I had a radio show called The Baptist Hour.