Word: iglesias
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Some villagers had not seen a priest for years. At tiny Tesciguot, 40 men on mules trotted out to meet Father José Maria López, firing their pistols into the air and shouting, "Viva la Iglesia Católica! Viva Jesucristo!" In mass ceremonies, the padre married 240 couples within three hours, aided by the government's special dispensation of the $12 license fee. Bathing in rivers, living on tortillas and beans, Father Jorge Toruno visited 17 towns, spoke to 30,000 people and married 1,139 couples, two-thirds of whom had never been to confession...
Elsewhere in Mexico, persecution of Evangelistas took other forms. In Mexico City, hooligans in an automobile shot the glass out of the electric cross on the roof of Bishop Ruesga's own Iglesia de Dios. In coffee-growing Chiapas, Evangelistas who protested the killing of one of their members were jailed while mobs sacked and burned their homes...