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.