Ecuador

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has lashed out at the Church again this week, encouraging young people to refuse to be taught by those who want to leave the country “in darkness”—a reference to the campaign by the bishops to vote responsibility during the upcoming referendum on the new constitution.

Backlash erupts against Christian opponents of proposed constitution. Catholic authorities report death threats and several acts of vandalism of church property in response to church opposition to several articles in Ecuador’s proposed new constitution.

Killing of five missionaries 50 years ago paved the way for recent baptism service for the tribe that had killed them.