Mexican Catholics persecute Christians, threaten
to tear down homes of those refusing to ‘recant’
Every year since establishing the Fountain of Heaven Church in Cuateceometl in 1997, some members of this evangelical congregation in the Mexican state of Hidalgo have spent short periods of time in jail. That is not because they are guilty of any crime. It happens because the majority of the town residents are Roman Catholics and local authorities have assumed a position of intolerance toward any other religious expression. On May 15, evangelical believers in the modest rural congregation, which is part of the Abundant Life Christian Fraternity, suffered yet another indignity. That Sunday morning, six police officers and a local Catholic catechist appeared at the church at 10 a.m. and arrested Pastor Francisco Sanchez Gonzalez and church member Raul Bautista.
Posted by Editor at May 27, 2005 05:06 AM
