Mexico: 150 Baptists kicked out of homes for not participating in Catholic festivals

Not the Bee ^ | 5/22/2024 | John Knox

[Tell It Right]

This is a story that sounds like it's coming from the 1600s and not 2024.

A group of 150 from the Great Commission Baptist Church in Mexico's Hidalgo State was displaced on April 26 from their homes in the villages of Coamila and Rancho Nuevo after refusing to participate in Catholic festivals in the cities. The villages are predominantly indigenous Nahuati-speaking communities.

[Tell It Right]

Wow!

[BipolarBob]

Has the blessed Pope blessed this eviction yet?

[Regulator]

“This is a story that sounds like it’s coming from the 1600s”

To go deep into Mexico is to end up back in the 1600s.

But morons in this country go there thinking it’s all just like the Ju S of A.

[BipolarBob]

File this one under “Things that might happen when your religion is a cult”.

[MeganC]

Mexico is supposedly a secular country. Not so much I’d say.

[dfwgator]

[MeganC]

Just fyi.

[Ge0ffrey]

I thought indiginous peoples were loving and tolerant and wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.

[nickcarraway]

That’s weird, because the government in Mexico is kind of anti-Catholic.

[Red Badger]

There are places in Mexico where even the government will not go................

[Wuli]

Do you think the pope will denounce this???

[V_TWIN]

There today......here tomorrow

[Tell It Right]

The article makes it sound like it’s local governments doing the persecution, not the Mexican national government.

[Red Badger]

Time for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, I’d say...................

[Tell It Right]

Do you think the pope will denounce this???

No, these were Baptists being driven out. He might denounce it if it were pro-LGBTQWERTY "Christians".

[Leaning Right]

> Has the blessed Pope blessed this eviction yet? <

He will if the local authorities say they did it to fight Climate Change.

[KarlInOhio]

Well, at least they didn’t cut their hearts out to make sure the sun rises tomorrow like in that old time religion in Mexico.

[MeganC]

“The article makes it sound like it’s local governments doing the persecution, not the Mexican national government.”

And where in the article does it say that the Mexican national government is doing anything about this?

[rrrod]

Land of Culture de Meurte... cannibalism is still practiced

[Ken H]

Someone needs to nail 95 Theses to the church door, like Martin Luther King did.