Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be emphasized that the people of Colombia and probably 95% of the Catholic clergy had nothing to do with this, but could do nothing to stop it during the Gomez regime...
Protestants in Colombia...
...persecution of Protestants in Colombia [Oct. 5] . . . The Pope is spiritual leader of Catholics all over the world. Why doesn't he punish, or admonish, at least, those of his subjects guilty of these atrocities...
This unique relationship was laid down in a treaty dating back to the 1903 revolution which freed Panama from Colombia. Panama remained possessor and theoretical sovereign of the Zone, but the U.S. got those "rights, power and authority" which it "would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign," in exchange for $10 million down and $250,000 a year (raised to $430,000 in 1936. when the U.S. went off the gold standard...
...News Bulletin of the Evangelical Confederation of Colombia (South America) published a summary of the persecution of Protestants there during the past five years. Items: 42 church buildings destroyed by fire and dynamite, 31 damaged, ten confiscated; 110 Protestant primary schools closed, 54 of them by government order, the rest by violence; 51 Protestant men, women & children killed, $148,000 lost in buildings destroyed, damaged or confiscated. During the same period, according to the confederation, Protestant church membership in Colombia increased 51%, from...