• Colombia: Threats Drive Pastor from Ministry in Medellin
A series of death threats against a pastor in a working-class Medellín neighborhood prompted him to abandon his home and ministry last month and flee with his family to Colombia's capital.
Added: Jul 2nd, 2008 4:01 AM
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jailed Mexican Evangelicals Fear New Massacre Trial
There was concern Wednesday, February 21, about the plight of dozens of evangelical prisoners in Mexico's southeastern state of Chiapas who rights watchers say have been wrongly convicted of involvement in the massacre of 45 Tzotzil Indians nearly a decade ago.
Added: Feb 22nd, 2007 11:04 PM
• Chiapas Indian Pastor Sentenced To Be Hung Was Saved By Senator
During my many years as a reporter, I have been involved in some incredible situations and one of them took place in Chiapas, Mexico, back in March of 1998.
Added: Feb 12th, 2007 9:21 AM
• Mexico: Persecution of Christians in Chiapas Accelerates
Persecution of evangelical Christians in the southern state of Chiapas “is accelerating daily in the indigenous regions,” according to the National Bar of Christian Lawyers.
Added: Feb 12th, 2007 8:55 AM
• Baptist Mission Workers Killed in Bus Crash in Honduras
Three Americans on a mission trip in Honduras were killed in a truck crash Feb. 6. Ten other people were injured when the truck flipped on a remote mountain road, authorities said.
Added: Feb 9th, 2007 12:02 AM

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