Puebla authorities ordered evangelical families leave the town of Texmelucan

Monday, 12 September 2011 13:03

La Jornada de Oriente

La Jornada

Yadira Llaven
Monday September 12, 2011, p. 35

Puebla, Pue., September 11. The General Secretariat of Government of Puebla gave in to pressure from traditionalists in the Catholic community of San Rafael Tlanalapan and called on Christian families to leave the village in the municipality of San Martín Texemlucan to protect the priest's followers Ascension Benitez Gonzalez, who threatened to lynched and crucified.

Officials say the protesters will leave on Monday and attend religious services at the municipal and other communities.

Eight youths prevented La Jornada de Oriente over the parish to seek an interview with the priest Ascension Benitez.

We also sought to President Antonio García Ovalle assistant at City Hall Junior Texmelucan municipality of San Martin, but was in a bar. The mayor said he always will be as decided by the majority of the people and refused to speak more for fear of being expelled by the Catholics.

The delegate from the seventh district government, Roberto Pineda Solano said: It is best for Christians to go, because we can not guarantee their safety and do not want to pass it 18 years ago, when the same Father Ascension prompted a group of Catholics to drive hits to a whole family, including children, and burn their homes, to profess another religion, he said.

During his Sunday Mass at eight in the morning, Ascension Benitez told his parishioners: If you want to continue the fight against Christianity is your problem, because I recall, but they know I'm with the people.

Just on Thursday, the priest refused to state authorities have instigated the expulsion of evangelicals Tlanalapan.

Before leaving the town on Saturday, Pastor Josué Jiménez Ovando contributed videos of the attacks of a group of Catholics and the priest, during a meeting with staff of the General Secretariat of Government.

Nevertheless, the pastor reiterated that has not participated in the harassment of evangelicals.

Ovando Jimenez said he filed a complaint of facts for the crime of aggression and those found with the file number 1295/2011.

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