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...Noel Luna, an earnest young (25) farmer, dropped into the small Presbyterian church at Frias, in the hills of central Colombia, one day last month to do a little repair work. He was an elder of the church, and accustomed to giving some of his spare time to its upkeep...
Inflammatory Sermons. Last week the Evangelical Confederation of Colombia* published the news of Luna's death. Elsewhere in Colombia last month, Protestant investigators checked off 20 other cases of violence against non-Catholics. In three years there have been hundreds more. Twenty-five Protestant missionaries and communicants have been killed. Wrote Presbyterian Life's Henry McCorkle, after a trip to Colombia this year to investigate: "The situation in Colombia makes the much-publicized persecutions in Spain seem mild as a May breeze...
There are 30,000 Protestants in Colombia, a predominantly Roman Catholic country with a population of 11,000,000. For almost two decades a democratic-and mildly anti-clerical-government did not molest them...
...Colombia schools, Roman Catholic teachers now teach children a 20-stanza song called El Protestantismo. Sample...
...Little Indians. Last week Colombia's National Ethnological Institute had new hope of getting to know the Motilones. A nine-year-old Motilon boy recently led a settler near Petrolea to a hut in the jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...