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Jesus came in the Jewish culture to save the world and make humans everywhere whole. He did not come to make humans everywhere Jewish.

I suppose he came to make everyone catholic and to give everyone a machete! lol

From U.S. Department of State Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: Mexico

Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; 89 percent of the population are at least nominal believers. Of this group, 29 percent participate actively in church services. According to various sources, Protestants of various denominations account for approximately 3.7 percent of the population; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) approximately 1 percent; Seventh-Day Adventists, 0.81 percent; Jehovah's Witnesses, 0.51 percent; Judaism, 0.3 percent; Orthodox Christianity, 0.05 percent; non-Christian groups, 2 percent; and 3 percent of the population does not identify with any organized religion. There is no estimate of the number of atheists or of those who do not practice any religion. The "traditional" religion practiced largely among indigenous people in some areas of the states of Chiapas and Yucatan mixes Catholic and pre-Hispanic Mayan religious beliefs.
There is a long history of religious intolerance and expulsions in certain indigenous communities whose residents follow traditional religious practices, and where religious diversity is viewed as a threat to indigenous culture. The Evangelical Commission in Defense of Human Rights claimed that municipal authorities had expelled 30,000 evangelicals from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, in the last 30 years. In San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, the church, the area's most prominent building, features a mix of Mayan symbols and traditional Catholic motifs. On July 26, 1998, municipal authorities expelled 70 evangelical Christians living in the municipality. State officials helped them to return on August 1, 1998. However, the children of evangelicals have been denied access to the local public schools in six communities there since 1994. In 1998 the mayor of San Juan Chamula declared that evangelicals and Catholics who support them would be unable to register the births of their children. In response, the state government approved a second registration office to handle the evangelicals.
There were no reports that persons were detained or imprisoned solely because of their religious beliefs. However, according to press reports, on June 15, 1999, police arrested 13 Protestants who were building a church in Mitziton, Chiapas. The church construction reportedly had angered Mayan Indians in the area, who see Protestantism as a threat to their cultural religious practices, which involve a mixture of Catholicism and traditional Mayan beliefs. Hundreds of persons in Mitizon and the nearby town of Flores Magon met recently to demand that the Protestants leave the area.
There were no reports of the forced religious conversion of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the Government's refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
However, societal harassment of, and pressures against, evangelical Christians continued to be a problem. For example, local bosses of indigenous communities located in these areas sometimes regard evangelical groups and Catholic lay catechists as unwelcome outside influences and potential economic and political threats. As a result, these bosses sometimes acquiesced in, or actually ordered, the harassment or expulsion of individuals belonging primarily, but not exclusively, to Protestant evangelical groups. In many cases these expulsions involved the burning of homes and crops, beatings, and, occasionally, killings, although none of the latter have been reported in recent years.
On August 27, 1998, indigenous Catholics in Mitziton, Chiapas, took 23 evangelicals hostage and threatened to eject them from the community if they did not convert to Catholicism. Catholic and state authorities intervened to obtain their release. In addition, a number of Catholic churches were burned in Chiapas, but the authorities made no arrests.

On August 27, 1998, indigenous Catholics in Mitziton, Chiapas, took 23 evangelicals hostage and threatened to eject them from the community if they did not convert to Catholicism. Catholic and state authorities intervened to obtain their release. In addition, a number of Catholic churches were burned in Chiapas, but the authorities made no arrests.

Hatemongers are known for not bothering to read and understand the stuff they post with glee.

If it's the evil Catholics who are responsible for this violence, why are the Cathoic Churches being burned and why were the Catholic authorities involved on the side of the "good?"

Stupid hatemongers.

Like Democrats arguing both for and against strong actions against terrorism (taking Bush to task for not doing before 9/11 what they simultaneously criticise him doing after), the only possible solution to this ethnic violence would be for the Catholic Church to come down, and come down hard on these Indians who profess the faith and yet act in primitive ways. But if the Catholic Church did exactly that, you same hatemongers would raise the alarms about how oppressive and powerful the Church is.

Hypocrites and ignorant. And willfully so.