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Mexico: in denial about displaced Christians

Mexico has a ‘policy of denial’ about the thousands of evangelical Christians forced out of their homes because of their beliefs, according to a Mexican human rights activist reported in early December.

World Watch Monitor / Open Doors

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Mexico: a colourful country with a dark secret | photo: iStock

Pedro Faro Navarro, director of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Centre, accused the government of ‘making up the figures’ of people forcibly displaced because they have left the ‘traditionalist’ Church, which blends aspects of indigenous paganism and popular Catholicism.