Tag: Oaxaca

Majority-Christian Mexico still struggling to ensure religious freedom for rural converts

April 6, 2017 Mexico Catholics, Converts, Jalisco, Latin America, Oaxaca, Tuxpan de Bolaños

Some of the Christians from San Juan Ozolotepec.

As many as 90% of Mexico’s population would identify as Christian, yet not all of them are free to practise their faith. Some come under pressure from drug cartels, either by being members of churches who meet regularly and carry money for giving offerings there and are therefore seen as . . . Read More

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

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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Tag: Oaxaca

Majority-Christian Mexico still struggling to ensure religious freedom for rural converts

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

Hostile homecoming for Mexican Protestant after exile

Another Mexican Protestant suffers

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