It formalizes a mechanism to expel evangelical

Monday, 05 October 2009 16:02

For six years, Christians in Huejutla, Hidalgo (Mexico) can not freely exercise their religious beliefs, to the extent that have been stoned, threatened with death and finally expelled from their land by a minority of Catholics who require them fee to the traditional festivals.

On 14 July were expelled 7 families of the community "The Places", including several children who can not return to school because their parents refused to sign a document which required them to renounce their evangelical beliefs and only "fined" because their religion "affects the tranquility of the area," according to his accusers.

Since then, families sleep on a farm that provides them with the municipal government headed by Alejandro Nava Soto, whom nothing has been done to Catholics who respect the law in Mexico that provides for freedom of religion for anyone.

The problem was "resolved shortly", according to some officials, when the National Commission for Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI) and the Municipality grant financial and material resources to buy a property and build housing for the deportees, which set a bad precedent for democratic life and healthy coexistence between different religions that exist in Mexico, because Mexico would justify the expulsions.

NO MECHANISMS OF REMOVAL

The eject mechanism is also practiced in cases of religious intolerance that recorded in Chiapas, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Jalisco, where at first the evangelicals are forced to pay contributions to local festivals and if they refuse cutting off water, electricity and are excluded from social welfare programs.

"The real intention of these people is to stay with the land and property of those who are expelled, stripping them of their heritage, using force and protected by the so-called traditional practices and customs", says Rev. Samuel Noguera, who has supported the expulsion of Hidalgo filing civil complaints and criminal penalties for these crimes, which are lost in the Courts office.

ES "ORGANIZED CRIME"

For Themis Court, President of the Permanent Campaign in Favor of Religious Liberty, the matter can not be solved otherwise than by turning a warrant for those who break the law and punishing those who break it, "but so far has not been the case. "

"This is going to end when organized crime is punishable as what the expelled because they were conspiring and inciting people to attack those who think differently, and this is equivalent to organize a group to keep their properties, which is a serious crime, "says the activist.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN HIDALGO?

In the case thrown out of "The Places", there are far Enedino accusations against Cruz Luna, Gaudencio Hernandez Cruz and Germain Azuara, borough officials, who have spearheaded the abuses against indigenous families and those who already take for granted that will stay with the land of Christians.

It is unfortunate the attitude of the mayor of Huejutla, Alejandro Nava Soto, who despite knowing the problem has said he "can not do anything" as well as the Governor of Hidalgo, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, who has refused to receive for Christians to explain their problems personally.

For their part, leaders of the various denominational churches in Mexico have not made any public comments.

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