Catholics Persecuting The Jews?

Jewish community 'forced out' of Guatemalan village


Members of the Orthodox Jewish community attend a meeting with leaders of San Juan La Laguna community at the headquarters of the Human Rights Office in Guatemala City, August 27, 2014.

A community of 230 Orthodox Jews from several countries Thursday began leaving the Guatemalan Indian village where they have lived for six years after claims and counterclaims of discrimination and threats.

Their exit from San Juan La Laguna, on the banks of Lake Atitlan and 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the capital Guatemala City, follows a meeting Wednesday in which Jewish and indigenous representatives failed to reach an agreement.

"We are a people of peace and in order to avoid an incident we've already begun to leave the village," Misael Santos, a representative from the Jewish community, told AFP.

They had received threats, Santos said.

"We have a right to be there, but they threatened us with lynching if we don't leave the village," he added.

Most members of the small Jewish community are from the United States, Israel, Britain and Russia, and around 40 are Guatemalan. Approximately half are children.

Since October, the local indigenous population has accused the Orthodox Jews of discriminating against them and of violating Mayan customs.

The Council of Indigenous Elders said the Jewish community "wanted to impose their religion" and was undermining the Catholic faith that is predominant in the village.

"We act in self-defense and to respect our rights as indigenous people. The (Guatemalan) constitution protects us because we need to conserve and preserve our culture," council spokesman Miguel Vasquez told AFP.

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Because it happened in one suburb in a city in Central America doesn't mean that it is happening everywhere.

Oh come on, King. You and I are constantly persecuting Christians Jews merely by existing and not wanting their language and belief structure in every aspect of our lives.

fixed for the hip thing to do today.

I'm a hipster persecuter. Hating on Jews is too mainstream.

This week I'm going to be down on Zoroastrianism.

Luckily for them, Altana is benevolent and will overlook the worship of idols and myths. We must all work harder to rid ourselves of the emptiness within, lest Promathia claim us all. I try to make it down to the Statue of the Goddess at least once a week to offer my prayers to the crystal.

Oh and don't *** with the Church of San'D Oria. They put RDMs in crates 'n ***. Nasty lot they are.

Where were the RDMs for the Simurgh Campaigns?

Where were the RDMs when the Gates of Kirin opened up and the floods of the Shinjin washed over the lands?

Where were the RDMs.....

Tolkien is a dangerous liar and slanderer against Lord Sauron who only wanted to bring peace and order to the realms!

Or..

Sauron was seduced by the dark side of the force.

Catholicism is not part of indigenous Guatemalan culture. Sounds like cognitive dissonance. Let alone the thread headline has been old hat going on 1500+ years now.

I'm not a Guatemalaologist but haven't most of the contacted tribes become syncretic anyway? They call their beliefs Catholicism but much like Voodoo and Santeria, it's a combination of native with the dominant power structure.

tl;dr - Call your religion catholic so people listen to you but really you're just practicing some local customs with Jesus slathered on top.

...isn't that basically what Christianity is anyhow?

I mean, dress it up how you want, but...

Catholicism. They intentionally spread by taking over others' holy spots and telling them they were Catholic all along.

I'm not a Guatemalaologist

yes you are, stop lying!

Catholicism is not part of indigenous Guatemalan culture. Sounds like cognitive dissonance. Let alone the thread headline has been old hat going on 1500+ years now.

Since October, the local indigenous population has accused the Orthodox Jews of discriminating against them and of violating Mayan customs.

The Council of Indigenous Elders said the Jewish community "wanted to impose their religion" and was undermining the Catholic faith that is predominant in the village.

In defense of the indijenas, they've been subjected to missionaries fot how many years? Their culture, language, and religion is a rarity in Latin America.


Sounds like these Jewish missionaries are trying do the same thing the Catholic Church did to the indijenas hundreds of years ago.

Catholics got there first. Back off, Jews. We get to dogmatize them!

It's more than that. Juan Diego's vision of the Virgin Mary is the foundation of Latin America's Catholicism. It "coincidentally" bridges the link between indijena culture and Catholicism.

Catholics got there first. Back off, Jews. We get to dogmatize them!