Colombia

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Sixteen members of the indigenous people group, Kogui, in Colombia are being held prisoner in an effort to force them to renounce Christianity. They are not protected by the Columbian government because of indigenous laws.

The pastor was assassinated in front of his wife and six young members of his church by suspected members of a paramilitary group.

The wife and children of pastor William Reyes, who was kidnapped last September in Colombia and is still missing, have moved from their home to another city due to threatening strangers presumably linked to his kidnappers.

At least ten Protestant pastors living in the northern Córdoba region of Colombia have come under threat from re-armed paramilitary groups over the past six months.

The Rev. William Reyes’ wife awaits word, fears for safety of her children.

“Now we are military targets. God brought me here, but sometimes I have wished not to continue, because being a Christian in a context like this where we live has a very high price.”

One pastor missing, three others reported killed in past month.

Some of the families in this Christian community have now suffered forced displacement at the hands of armed groups three times.

A series of death threats against a pastor in a working-class Medellín neighborhood prompted him to abandon his home and ministry last month and flee with his family to Colombia’s capital.

A Netherlands-based group defending reportedly persecuted Christians admitted Wednesday, June 4, that it has met the leadership of Colombia's main left-wing rebel group to discuss the closure of over 130 churches and death threats against Colombian Christians.

Parish priests in Colombia, along with a number of local human rights groups, have received e-mail messages declaring them "military objectives" to be eliminated.

Do Christians in America really believe, is this a 21st century story? Learning of persecution is difficult this story is a place to start and remember Acts 2:47 “And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.”

"Their bodies were found the next day, 40 meters apart. Both had been shot in the head."

Colombia is not often considered a place where Christians experience the kind of persecution that goes on in places like China, but this story shows that the church is facing severe persecution from many different sources.

Leftist rebels in Colombia's Meta Province hired a gunman to assassinate a Christian mother of four because she refused to stop proclaiming Christ.

Colombian Evangelical Council of Churches calls for the government and rebel groups to end an armed struggle in which over 130 evangelical pastors have been assassinated.

The deaths of two priests reveals the high cost of ministering to a nation torn apart by civil war.