Suspects in Pastor’s Slaying Arrested
From Times Wire Reports
About 300 state police raided the southern Mexican village of Botatulan to arrest two suspects in the slaying of a Protestant pastor in a region torn by religious conflict. Chiapas state Atty. Gen. Mariano Herran Salvatti said Manuel Hernandez Gomez and Manuel Gomez Perez had been arrested.
Villagers who practice a form of Catholicism mixed with Indian traditions have forced about 30,000 Protestant converts out of the area.
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