Word: luna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before the big game-hunting season opened in Colorado, a couple of overeager gunners from Oklahoma, Merrel Metts and Lloyd Luna, shot five deer. Nabbed by sharp-eyed game wardens, the two poachers were taken before a justice of the peace who socked them with fines of $2,725 apiece, the largest poaching fines in Colorado history, and sentenced them to 30 days in jail...
Soon after Elder Luna finished his work and left, government police broke into the church, overturned the pulpit, dragged the Bible and all the Protestant literature they could find outside for burning. In the midst of their looting, Elder Luna returned. The police demanded to know his religion and his politics...
...acknowledged that he was a Protestant and a member of the Liberal Party. The police dragged him along with them. Minutes later, Luna crawled weakly to the house of a fellow Protestant. "Pray for me," he gasped, "give me water." The police, said Luna, had taken him a little distance down the road, and stabbed him in the chest. Shortly afterward, Presbyterian Luna died...
...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...