Source: Worthy News, April 11, 2016<\/p>\n
Last month two churches in Chile were set ablaze by supporters of the Mapuche\u2014a Chilean movement that seeks to rid the region of religions contrary to their own indigenous beliefs.<\/p>\n
According to International Christian Concern, the church attacks were two of five other arsons that occurred within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
In the first attack, the Catholic Church of Santa Joaquina in the commune of Padre Las Casas was torched. Hours later an evangelical church\u2014the Christian Union in Antinao\u2014was also set afire. A pamphlet found at the site read: \u201cWe are going to burn all churches\u201d and demanded that all Mapuche political prisoners be released.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>. See also related stories in Christian Times<\/a> and Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Readers might also be interested in an ASSIST News Service story about the Gathering of Nations<\/a>, a native-American event that brings together 700 North American tribes (and some committed to native American ministry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Worthy News, April 11, 2016 Last month two churches in Chile were set ablaze by supporters of the Mapuche\u2014a Chilean movement that seeks to rid the region of religions contrary to their own indigenous beliefs. According to International Christian Concern, the church attacks were two of five other arsons that occurred within 24 hours. … Continue reading CHILE: Christian Churches Set Ablaze<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6380,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}