Mexico
Monday February 6, 2012
Mexico:
A married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on last week Tueday at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado, Santiago, Nuevo Leon. The area has suffered heavily from attacks by drug cartels in recent weeks, including the murder of the mayor of El Cercado, leading to the tentative conclusion that the crime was committed by people serving narcotics traffickers.
Friday January 20, 2012
Mexico • Quackery • RNB's Religion News Blog:
Mexico has a long history of faith healers and home remedies, but the problem has come to a head in the last few years with a constant stream of ads on television for more “scientific” sounding creams that supposedly lift or enlarge breast and buttocks, magnets that help users lose weight, or pills and powders that cure gastric problems or diabetes.Tuesday September 20, 2011
Mexico • Religious Persecution:
About 70 Protestant Christians lived in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan, Puebla state, until last week Monday, when they faced a frightening ultimatum – leave immediately or be “crucified or lynched.” Traditionalist Catholics in the village reportedly threatened to burn down or otherwise destroy their homes.
Thursday December 14, 2006
Mexico: About 200 clowns paraded through the streets of Mexico City on Wednesday in a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an annual rite to offer thanks for the Virgin’s help and protection throughout the year.
Tuesday April 5, 2005
Mexico: ZINACANTAN, Mexico -- After Pedro Gonzalez Perez, 38, lost sight in his left eye during a drunken stupor, he said he desperately searched for help, but found none in the town's grand Catholic church.
Monday January 17, 2005
Mexico: In one cathedral, faithful pray to the Captured Infant for the safe release of kidnap victims By IOAN GRILLO
Saturday December 18, 2004
Mexico: MEXICO CITY -- An American woman and her Mexican husband were acquitted on Friday of charges of killing a Mexican girl, after a government commission told the judge that prosecutors or experts witnesses had committed irregularities in the case.
Saturday October 18, 2003
Mexico: In the industrial Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez, across the border from Texas, women look at every man as a potential rapist or serial killer.
Wednesday September 10, 2003
Mexico: Man jailed in Mexico for having drugs sold over counter in U.S.
Monday August 25, 2003
Mexico: CHIHUAHUA, Mexico Cynthia Kiecker says she and her Mexican husband stood out as "kind of the hippies of Chihuahua," a conservative northern Mexico city where cowboy hats and boots are the norm.
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