Tag: Lauro Pérez Núñez

Mexican Christian starts new life away from village where he was beaten, imprisoned and eventually forced to leave

March 17, 2017 Exile, Lauro Pérez Núñez, Mexico City, Oaxaca

After facing beatings, imprisonment and eventually exile from his home village, Lauro Pérez Núñez and his family are starting a brand new life. He and his wife Amalia, converts to evangelical Christianity, were first ordered to leave La Chachalaca, in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, in 2015, together with their four children. . . . Read More

Religious freedom ambassador visits Mexico

August 17, 2016 Mexico Catholics, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Lauro Pérez Núñez, Mexico, Mexico City, Protestants, Puebla, Religious freedom

The US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, David Saperstein, is in Mexico to discuss how its federal and state governments are adhering to their international obligations to uphold freedom of religion and belief. As World Watch Monitor has reported, Mexican Christians who branch away from the “traditionalist” village churches, which . . . Read More

Mexican Protestants continue to face pressure for leaving ‘traditionalist’ churches

June 13, 2016 Mexico Burial, Catholics, Chiapas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Lauro Pérez Núñez, Protestants, Tuxpan de Bolaños, Veracruz

Lauro Pérez Núñez has been arrested and detained several times since leaving ‘traditionalist’ church.Coordinación de Organizaciones Cristianas Mexican Christians who branch away from the “traditionalist” village churches, which blend aspects of indigenous paganism and popular Catholicism, continue to face pressure to return to the fold or leave their villages. . . . Read More

Hostile homecoming for Mexican Protestant after exile

May 16, 2016 Mexico Catholics, Chiapas, Exile, Lauro Pérez Núñez, Oaxaca, Protestants

Lauro Pérez Núñez has been arrested and detained several times since leaving ‘traditionalist’ church.Coordinación de Organizaciones Cristianas Lauro Pérez Núñez, a convert to the Protestant faith, was ordered to leave his community last year for violating what local authorities claimed was the village’s “custom” of belonging to the “traditionalist” . . . Read More

Another Mexican Protestant suffers

September 16, 2015 Mexico Catholics, Chiapas, Exile, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Human rights, Lauro Pérez Núñez, Mexico, Oaxaca, Protestants, Puebla

A Mexican Protestant recently detained for the third time by local authorities has now seen his three children banned from attending the local school and his home cut off from the village’s water and electricity services. His crime? Attending an Evangelical church. The state Ombudsman in Oaxaca has publicly condemned . . . Read More

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