http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23568/persecution-mexico http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23568/persecution-mexico#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:14:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23568 "Traditionalist Catholic" leaders last month expelled 57 evangelical Christians from towns in two states for refusing to participate in their religious festivals.

Leaders of traditionalist Catholicism, a mixture of Roman Catholicism and native rituals, expelled 32 Christians from their homes in a village in Hidalgo state and another 25 from a town in Oaxaca; in each case, the evangelicals were deprived of their property for refusing to participate in drunken festivals that included worship of Catholic icons.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23568/persecution-mexico/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:17:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22249 The heads of 11 decapitated bodies discovered in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula last week may have been burned in a ritual, investigators said.

Police said they found an altar to the skeletal figure of the "Santa Muerte," an unofficial patron saint of death, in the home of two men arrested in connection with the slayings, while several scorched spots were discovered in a nearby clearing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20714/nabor-cardenas-nueva-jerusalem http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20714/nabor-cardenas-nueva-jerusalem#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:40:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20714/nabor-cardenas-nueva-jerusalem http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20714/nabor-cardenas-nueva-jerusalem/feed 0