Cuba is focus of BGR in Hurricane Matthew's wake

Cuba is focus of BGR in Hurricane Matthew's wake

Baptist Global Response (BGR), a global Southern Baptist Relief and Development Organization, in a news release Wednesday afternoon, said the organization had monitored Hurricane Matthew as it had impacted Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica and decided to focus its response in Cuba.

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