TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — Persecution of evangelical Christians in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas "is accelerating daily in the indigenous regions," according to the National Bar of Christian Lawyers.
Most of the problems stem from small-town leaders’ insistence that evangelicals pay quotas for the festivals of "traditional Catholics" — a blend of native "traditional" religions and Catholicism — or else they will be expelled from their homes and their properties seized, said Alfonso Farrera, director of the bar.
The bar has told the government it has records of 200 cases of unresolved religious intolerance in Chiapas, including "threats, intimidation and robbery or expulsion from their communities or death."
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