Word: ruesga
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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What happens in the tiny Mexican village of San Felipe de Santiago Yeche, few outsiders have ever known or cared. But when the fanatically Catholic Indians of Santiago Yeche expressed disapproval of two Protestant missionaries by murdering them, Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God protested to Mexico City. Two special federal officers-Marcelo Fernandez Ocana and Leopoldo Arenas-went to the village...
Violence & Faith. To affable, middle-aged Protestant Bishop Ruesga the incident was just an incident in the continuous, often violent conflict between Mexico's 20,000,000 Catholics and 180,000 Protestants. To the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Luis María Martínez, the tragedy at Santiago Yeche deserved Christian condemnation. Said he: "The Catholic faith is defended and extended through prayer, instruction and good example. . . . The Christian spirit is the spirit of charity, and charity is sweet and prudent...
...Bishop Ruesga's own church in Calzada de Guadalupe, a starkly simple building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...
Bearers of the Word. In the rear of his church Bishop Ruesga trains a small class of earnest young Indians to become evangélicos-Protestant teachers. His Church of God, though one of Mexico's smaller Protestant sects, is noted for its missionary zeal...
...Protestants the Bible is a primer in educational work. Said one missionary: "We prefer to teach [the Indians], to let them become aware of the world outside and of the Book of God without forcing it upon them." But Catholics, men like Bishop Ruesga argue, oppose not only the placing of the Bible in Indian hands, but education itself, fearing that knowledge will lead the Indians away from, the Church of Rome...