– In Mexico, mainly in indigenous areas, lReligious intolerance has been a reality for almost 50 years; and as a result, more than 30,000 evangelicals were forced to leave their homes, to avoid conflicts with the community.
According to a special report from the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico (CNDH), from 1974 to 2016, documented more than 30,500 cases of internal displacement in Chiapasgenerated by religious intolerance, reported Aquinoticias.
Chiapas is a state in southern Mexico, which borders Guatemala. There, more than 30,000 indigenous Tzotzils (Mayan people of the Chiapas Highlands), were expelled from the municipality of San Juan Chamulafor “embracing different religions, traditional Catholicism.”
The Special Report on Internal Forced Displacement, public on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration of Victims Motivated by Religion, or Beliefs on August 22.
According to the 2020 population census, of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Chiapas is the Mexican state, which registers the largest number of people, who consider themselves Protestant or Evangelicalas well as the state with the fewest people, who consider themselves Catholic.
INEGI census
The Institute’s census details that Chiapas has more than 5.5 million inhabitants, of which 3 million consider themselves Catholics, and 2 million are evangelical Protestants.
The coordination of Christian Organizations in Mexico, explains that, in Chiapas, 6 out of 10 families leave their home, to avoid attacks due to religious conflicts.
One of the most recent cases, registered in julyin the municipality of San Andrés Larrainzar, where two families were expropriated and exiled for not cooperating in the celebration of a Catholic Church festival.
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