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April 25, 2007

The good news from Mexico

Chiapas expulsion of evangelicals halted.

Ted Olsen

Mexico City's decision to legalize abortion, and the local Roman Catholic reaction to that decision, is getting all kinds of press this week. But don't miss the other big religion story coming out of Mexico, which you're unlikely to see in your local paper. Compass Direct reports, "Local political bosses who had voted to expel 65 Christians from [the Chiapas town of Los Pozos] grudgingly signed an agreement yesterday to let the evangelicals stay in their homes. ... It remains to be seen, he added, whether the Los Pozos town bosses will follow through on the accord’s stipulation that they restore water lines and electricity cut off from some evangelical families since January 30."

Evangelical pastor and attorney Esdras Alonso Gonzalez tells the religion watchdog news service that (in Compass's words) "the signing of the accord could prove to be a watershed moment in Mexican human rights in that it sets a precedent for state authority to head off conflicts before they fester into decades-old, major confrontations."

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Who are these folks polling? As a second generation latino-american, most of my friends who are second generation also attend predominantly english speaking congregations. I pastor an english speaking church, in which I am the only hispanic, however in most of the churches that I was in prior to here, a good percentage of the congregation were second and third generation hispanics. My father pastor's a Hispanic church. However throughout my childhood I and my Hispanic friends attended both the Spanish church and an english speaking churches youth ministry. I think the study does not take into account the fact that there is a massive blending and bleeding of folks between the english/spanish/korean etc... congregations.

Posted By: eliut | April 26, 2007 9:09 PM

I wonder how this will affect elections here in the States. If abortion takes on a whole new political dimension in Mexico and becomes increasingly a divisive, focused issue will it affect Mexican-American voters here, making the tendency towards voting democratic quite less assumed?

Very interesting.

Posted By: Patrick | April 27, 2007 10:53 AM