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Catholic Clergy Responds to Protestant Group’s Defense of AMLO

By KELIN DILLON Just days after Protestant Christian leader and president of the National Confraternity of Christian and Evangelical Churches (Confraternice) Arturo Farela Gutiérrez spoke out in defense of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “hugs, not bullets” policy for addressing violence and publicly criticized the Catholic Church as “setting the country on fire,” members of the Mexican Catholic

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Protestant Leader Defends AMLO against Catholic Church Criticisms

By KELIN DILLON After repeated tension between the Catholic Church and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) throughout the latter’s presidency, the president of the National Confraternity of Christian and Evangelical Churches (Confraternice), Arturo Farela Gutiérrez. has spoken out against the Church’s repeated distancing from López Obrador, claiming that it’s looking to “set the country on fire” through the

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Mexican Church Leader Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison

By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, June 8, the leader of Mexico’s controversial La Luz del Mundo Church, Naasón Joaquín García, son of church founder Eusebio Joaquín González, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in a U.S. prison by a judge in Los Angeles on charges surrounding his sexual abuse of three minor girls in his congregation. Originally arrested

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Mexico News Roundup

By RICARDO CASTILLO   “Iron Lady” Named Tax Collector Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez was appointed as Mexico’s new Tributary Administration Service (SAT) director on Thursday, Dec. 18, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). She replaces Margarita Ríos-Farjat, now the 11th member of the Supreme Court of the Nation. Buenrostro (whose last name literally means Good Face) was promoted to the

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