Daniel_Cheung
10-21-2009, 09:19 PM
Mass Arrest: Christianity and the Deadly Mexico Drug War
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/november/2.16.html
The bold interruption of a Sunday Mass to arrest a drug lord in August illustrated just how desperate Mexico's war on drugs has become--and how religion is no longer a neutral observer.
Roman Catholic leaders condemned the invasion of sacred space as federal police entered a Michoac?n sanctuary August 2 to arrest Miguel Angel Beraza, a leader of La Familia. (The brazenly violent drug cartel supports its actions with rhetoric purloined from evangelical sources such as John Eldredge.) Beraza's arrest came as escalating violence in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana has killed thousands, disrupted the usual summer wave of mission activity by evangelicals....
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/november/2.16.html
The bold interruption of a Sunday Mass to arrest a drug lord in August illustrated just how desperate Mexico's war on drugs has become--and how religion is no longer a neutral observer.
Roman Catholic leaders condemned the invasion of sacred space as federal police entered a Michoac?n sanctuary August 2 to arrest Miguel Angel Beraza, a leader of La Familia. (The brazenly violent drug cartel supports its actions with rhetoric purloined from evangelical sources such as John Eldredge.) Beraza's arrest came as escalating violence in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana has killed thousands, disrupted the usual summer wave of mission activity by evangelicals....