Mexico.

November 12, 2013

A mob abducted, jailed and beat a group of evangelical Christians in southern Mexico – allegedly on the orders of a district official.
Beating the Christians with rods and stones, the mob also attacked their unfinished church building in Oaxaca with sledgehammers and pick-axes. The attack was apparently in retaliation for the Christians declining to take part in traditional religious festivities and for protesting about previous ill-treatment.
This is just the latest attack in a long-running campaign of persecution. The National Commission on Human Rights alleges that the violence is being orchestrated by a senior municipal official who has stirred up hatred against the Christians and made life very difficult for them since 2011, threatening to expel and even kill them. Release Int.