Traditionalist Catholic Village Authorities Cut Water Supply to Protestant Families Christian Solidarity Worldwide
go to original April 30, 2014

Local authorities in the village of Union Juarez, in the municipality of La Trinitaria, Mexico, met yesterday in a move to cut the water supply to additional families belonging to the Mount Tabor Evangelical Church, because of the Protestants’ continued refusal to participate actively in Catholic ceremonies.

The traditionalist Catholic village authorities cut the water and electricity supply to 25 Protestant families in February and arbitrarily detained one member of the community who attempted to reconnect his water supply. A total of 27 families are now without water and electricity as the village authorities seek to increase pressure on the Protestants.

Local human rights activists are concerned that religious intolerance in the village is escalating as government officials fail to intervene.

Meanwhile, on 26 April, young people who are members of a group of forcibly displaced Catholics and Baptists carried out a pilgrimage in order to draw attention to continuing threats and religious intolerance by majority Presbyterians towards Catholics and Baptists in the village of Puebla, in the state of Chiapas.

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