A point of lynching to 70 evangelicals, 25 were children

Friday, 02 October 2009 14:22

niÃ±os de oaxaca Some 70 evangelical Christians in the Pentecostal Church "More than Conquerors" are about to be lynched in the community of La Palma, Municipio de Ixtlan de Juarez, Oaxaca, including 25 children, authorities and Catholics who heads the municipal agent, Zosimus Mendoza Perez, who gave the order to "assassinate" the faithful on Tuesday afternoon.

On 31 August, a group led by Mendoza Perez burned the temple where evangelicals gathered and ordered shut to prevent access of the people to leave or enter and rescue authorities to Christians. Only two people escaped down the paths and reach for help municipal authorities that have not sent the security forces so far.

Pastor Abraham Martínez Velazco, said by telephone that 13 evangelical families at risk of death, as the municipal official has urged the people to lynch those who are not Catholics at that location, so he led the burning of the sanctuary and one who prevents, with armed men, access to the people.

"Since last December, local authorities prevented the 25 children continue to be benefited by programs of state and federal governments, so they no longer attend school or receive local pantries," confirmed the shepherd.

The problem escalated earlier this week, then that evangelicals have sought the intervention of the State Government for over a year, by filing several civil and criminal proceedings against the authority that has been intolerant and persecuting, since prevent them meet for worship, leaving them out of the support programs for indigenous people and peasants, for contributions to Catholic festivals and depriving them of their rights as commoners.

At this time, Pastor Martínez Velazco is in Oaxaca City in hopes of being heard by some official, while members of his congregation still incommunicado and threatened with death in La Palma, a town of Ixtlan, so did not rule out lynching.

This is in addition to more than 90 cases of intolerance and religious discrimination Voice of the Martyrs has documented over the current presidential term, of which over 80% have gone unpunished.

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