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Mexico has a ‘policy of denial’ about the thousands of evangelical Christians forced out of their homes because of their beliefs, according to a Mexican human rights activist reported in early December.

Pedro Faro Navarro, director of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Centre, accused the government of ‘making up the figures’ of people forcibly displaced because they have left the ‘traditionalist’ Church, which blends aspects of indigenous paganism and popular Catholicism.

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A pastor was taken hostage and several Christians were among the many injured in an attack by a rebel group in September.