The statement issued by NHRC clarified that the request to the governor is due to the injuries that evangelicals have received from common and municipal authorities in these localities.

The agency said that intolerance and persecution on religious grounds are very common practice in Mexico, especially indigenous communities, whose people professing different faiths.

"The victims of religious intolerance have been forced to leave their places of origin, since their physical integrity and liberty are at stake, in addition to their homes and belongings are at risk of harm," says the text.

Without doubt, religious intolerance is not new in Mexico. We can go back to December 2, 1947, when she died a humble Christian Indian named "Brother Silverio" in the El Limoncito, a small town in the State of Jalisco. Two months earlier, during the annual meetings of the Baptist Association of the region, had testified to his faith in the Lord through baptism. Upon returning home he fell ill, and despite the seriousness of his case, was made subject to harsh persecution. The agricultural authorities of the place came to him with the threat that if he left his new religion the right to cancel the plot of land planted. In the presence of the party and their own children Silverio brother asked his wife to bring him the Bible. With the holy book in his hand said, "Here's your plot, your heritage and my children. Nobody delivery. Read it a lot." And breathlessly asked to sing his favorite hymn. Accompanied them only four words and then gave up the ghost in the sweetest calm.

STATE INTERVENTION
The NHRC expressed regret that some parts of the country to come forward are still cases of intolerance and religious persecution among members of a community and among the same family.

Because the recorded episodes could constitute violations of human rights, the NHRC asked the head of the executive branch of Chiapas precautionary measures to avoid "the consummation of acts of difficult or impossible to repair."

Argued that samples of religious antagonism, however small, require immediate action of the State, not only to avoid social conflicts but also to strengthen the culture of respect for the fundamental rights of individuals, law enforcement and state of law.

TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE
The text of the statement issued the Human Rights Commission after the NGOs ask the Governor of Chiapas, Juan Sabines Guerrero, the application for interim measures of protection in favor of evangelical Christian families in several municipalities of this entity and aggression who are suffering, with the complicity of local authorities expressed time:

1 .- It is plausible that the NHRC has recognized that risk is not only religious freedom but the physical integrity of evangelical Christian families who can not exercise their right to practice a religion other than Catholic in several municipalities in that state.

2 .- We urge the NHRC to extend this same recommendation to the governments of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Hidalgo and Jalisco, where the "hot spots" are latent religious intolerance and expulsions are every day more often, especially in Indigenous areas

3 .- The NHRC recognizes that religious persecution is still "a pattern of practice" in the country, but should be encouraged equally to the Interior Ministry, so that through the General Directorate of Religious Associations and Public Worship is recognize this phenomenon, the law is applied in each of the over 80 documented cases were recorded throughout 2009, and punish the authorities to encourage discrimination and religious intolerance, and that its policy has been of constant concealment and neglect the phenomenon.

4 .- We ask the Chamber of Deputies and Senators immediately create the Commission for Religious Affairs, since state offices responsible for dealing with cases in this area have been exceeded, as the subsidiary of the Ministry of Interior.

5 .- We urge the National Human Rights Commission made the comment on the Ministries of Public Education, Social Development and SAGARPA to take action on the matter, after which in some indigenous communities are deprived of social assistance programs and support farmers evangelical families, by simple fact of professing a religion other than the majority and is expelled or discriminates against children who attend Christian churches.

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