Tag: Coahuila

Two priests murdered in Mexico as gang attacks against religious leaders continue

February 8, 2018 Mexico Coahuila, Guerrero, Juarez, Latin America, Mexico, Nayarit, Veracruz

In the early morning of Monday 5 February, two priests were shot dead while travelling on the Iguala-Taxco highway of Mexico’s notorious Guerrero state. Fr. Germain Muñiz Garcia and Fr. Iván Añorve Jaimes, from a church in Veracruz state, were reported killed by the Catholic News Agency. Their attackers fled . . . Read More

Mexico a ‘case study in government inaction’ as third priest killed this year

July 12, 2017 Mexico Catholics, Coahuila, Latin America, Los Zetas, Mexico City, Michoacán, Nayarit, Organised crime, Tijuana

A third Mexican priest this year has been killed following a violent attack at his parish just outside Mexico City. Luis Lopez Villa, 71, was killed by intruders at his San Isidro Labrador parish in Nezahualcóyotl on 5 July. An initial police report said his hands and feet were bound . . . Read More

Mexico drug cartels charging churches ‘taxes’ now ‘very common’

March 17, 2017 Mexico Coahuila, Latin America, Organised crime, USA

Mexico is infamous for its high crime rates. (Photo: Otay Detention Centre in California, next to Mexican border / BBC World Service / CC)

A Mexican church leader has provided fresh insight into the ways in which Christians in Latin America come under pressure in areas controlled by drug cartels. The pastor, who wished to remain anonymous, told World Watch Monitor about the “tax” churches can be charged to be allowed to remain open. . . . Read More

Expelled Mexican Christians forced to live in wine cellar

January 17, 2017 Mexico Coahuila, Colotlán, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Latin America, Organised crime, Tuxpan de Bolaños

Following their eviction on 26 January 2016, the seven families have been surviving in various temporary shelters provided for them by the state government.World Watch Monitor A year after seven Christian families were forced from their homes in a village in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, the 30 . . . Read More

Mexico ‘in denial’ over Christians forced out of homes for their beliefs

December 4, 2016 Mexico Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Tuxpan de Bolaños, Veracruz

Twelve of the 30 evangelical Christians evicted from the village of Tuxpan de Bolaños in Jalisco in January. Courtesy Open Doors International Mexico has a “policy of denial” about the thousands of evangelical Christians forced out of their homes because of their beliefs, according to a Mexican human rights activist. . . . Read More

Missionary couple killed, peace pact in Puebla

February 3, 2012 Mexico Baptists, Catholics, Coahuila, Mexico, Mexico City, Missionaries, Organised crime, Protestants, Puebla

A married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on Tuesday (Jan. 31) at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado, Santiago, Nuevo Leon. John Casias, 76, and Wanda Casias, 67, were strangled with electrical cords when intruders broke into their house and . . . Read More

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