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• Mexico Authorities Expel Evangelicals From Homes, reports
Some 20 evangelical Christians, most of them children in a troubled town of Mexico’s Guerrero State, were homeless Saturday, February 23, after they were reportedly expelled by authorities for their refusal to participate in festivals honoring Catholic saints.
Added: Feb 25th, 2008 8:38 AM
• Honduras' Top Evangelical Accuses Criminals Of Infiltrating Ministry
The pastor of one of Central America’s largest churches and evangelical organizations says criminal groups are infiltrating his and other Christian groups in an effort to halt their operations, BosNewsLife learned Friday, January 4.
Added: Jan 7th, 2008 5:39 AM
• Evangelical Pastor And Activists Detained In Cuba
An evangelical pastor and several other human rights workers have been detained in Cuba shortly after security forces broke up a meeting commemorating political prisoners in the capital Havana, BosNewsLife learned from activists Saturday, November 24.
Added: Nov 26th, 2007 5:00 AM
• Argentina: Mayor Closes Ministry Center
A pastor in Argentina has received threatening letters and had posters of his face displayed in Quilmes after the city's mayor closed down the congregation's newly constructed ministry center last March.
Added: Oct 24th, 2007 4:30 AM
• Mexico: 'Traditionalist Catholics' Demolish Another Church
Chiapas state officials arrested 14 "traditionalist Catholics" following the destruction on Sunday (July 22) of an evangelical church in a community of San Juan Chamula, near San Cristobal de las Casas, in Mexico’s Chiapas state.
Added: Jul 30th, 2007 3:30 AM
• Pentecostal Pastors Shot Dead In Colombia
Two Pentecostal pastors have been assassinated in Colombia by suspected leftist rebels, Christian rights activists said Tuesday, July 10.
Added: Jul 10th, 2007 8:52 PM
• Mexico: Christians in Chiapas Town Deprived of Water
More than five weeks after town bosses in Chiapas state, Mexico, signed an agreement to restore water lines cut off from Christians since January, the Protestants still rely on dirty, distant wells and puddles for washing and drinking.
Added: May 31st, 2007 3:06 AM
• Cuban Influential Christian Prisoner Suffering Of Tuberculosis
An influential Christian Cuban "prisoner of conscience" remained behind bars Pentecost Sunday, May 27, despite suffering of tuberculosis in the Kilo 7 Prison in the province of Camaguey, dissidents told BosNewsLife.
Added: May 29th, 2007 2:46 AM
• Mexico: Pact Spares Evangelicals in Chipas from Expulsion
Local political bosses who had voted to expel 65 Christians from a small town near here grudgingly signed an agreement yesterday to let the evangelicals stay in their homes.
Added: Apr 25th, 2007 5:58 AM
• Mexico: Pact Sets New Course for Threatened Christians
On Monday (April 23), small town political bosses near this city in Chiapas state are set to meet with representatives of 65 Christians they have threatened to expel in a showdown that could influence religious rights throughout the region.
Added: Apr 23rd, 2007 2:59 AM
• Mexico: New Believer Jailed for Receiving Christ
Juan Mendez Mendez became a Christian in a village outside of this city in Chiapas state on April 7, and two days later local authorities put him in jail -- for leaving their religious blend of Roman Catholicism and native custom.
Added: Apr 17th, 2007 5:18 AM
• Cuba Christian Activist Biscet "Trusts God" Amid Prison Abuses
One of Cuba’s most prominent Christian prisoners, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, has said he has been forced to watch abuses "that threaten the decorous behavior of a civilized society" but stressed he trusts God to one day end his "unjust sentence," in a letter published by BosNewsLife Saturday, March 3.
Added: Mar 5th, 2007 3:27 AM
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