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Moisés Rosa Ramos

(He/Him)

1942-2003

Written by Ana Castillo Muñoz

Translated from the Spanish by Ana Portnoy Brimmer

Moisés Rosa Ramos was born in1942 in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico and died in 2003. Rosa Ramos was a pastor in the towns of Naranjito and Caguas, Puerto Rico. He was also a poet, politician, and union leader. During the 1970s, he was the director of Educación Cristiana’s Discípulos de Cristo denomination, the secretary of the Comisión Evangélica Latinoamericana de Educación Cristiana (CELADEC) for Colombia and the Caribbean, and the coordinator for the Movimiento Ecuménico Nacional’s (PRISA) theology and church program. He also served as the director of the Asociación de ExAlumnos of the Seminario Evangélico and executive of the Concílio Evangélico of Puerto Rico. Alongside pastors Pilar Piñero, Lucas Torres Román, and Pablo Mayssonet Marrero, he published the poetry book Toda esta sed de amor (Bayamón, 1970). Rosa Ramos was the director, founder, and editor of Editorial Sonar and Revista Casabe.

 

Works Cited

Rivera Pagán, Luis. “Perspectiva teológica sobre la crisis en Puerto Rico: Algunos desafíos.” Lupa Protestante, 26 March 2011, www.lupaprotestante.com/perspectiva-teologica-sobre-la-crisis-en-puerto-rico-algunos-desafios/.

“Rosa Ramos, Moisés.” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, edited by Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Reference, www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1836.