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Reverend Merlyn Hyde-Riley - There are still Paul Bogle’s in the Baptist Church

Apr 9th, 2023 | Category: GLEANER PREMIUM | 30:34
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#JamaicaGleaner #Baptist #JamaicaBaptistUnion #PaulBogle #MorantBay APRIIL 9, 2023: Reverend Merlyn Hyde-Riley is arrow focused and has never questioned her call to religious service, both as a minister of the gospel and an administrator. Born in rural Jamaica, she was raised in the church of National Hero Paul Bogle, the political activist deacon who led the march from Stony Gut to Morant Bay in a fight against poverty and injustice and lack of confidence in the central authority. That march would eventually lead to his death. Reverend Hyde-Riley, one of three female ministers in the denomination with 340 churches across the island is acutely aware of this history and she insists that the Baptist denomination is not bereft of the Paul Bogle

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