April 23 (CDN) — April 23 (Compass) — Quechua-speaking villagers in Bolivia are living under an uneasy truce two months after an irate mob destroyed the sole evangelical church in their remote Andean community. On March 9, town officials in Chucarasi signed an ....
March 8 (CDN) — Similar Quechua church in Chiru-KassaAn angry mob of Quechua-speaking Indians destroyed the only evangelical church in the remote village of Chucarasi in the Bolivian Andes on February 28 after beating a congregational elder unconscious. Villagers ....
March 8 (CDN) — March 8 (Compass) — An angry mob of Quechua-speaking Indians destroyed an evangelical church in a remote village in the Bolivian Andes on February 28 after beating a congregational elder unconscious. Trouble began among the 140 inhabitants of ....
December 15 (CDN) — (Compass) — Three weeks after assuming office, President Carlos Mesa of Bolivia met with evangelical leaders in La Paz, the first official meeting in more than a decade between Bolivian Protestants and their head of state. “We expressed evangelical ....
September 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - American missionary Christopher Chavez, 42, former director of the Center for the Deaf and Mute in Bolivia, has lost his appeal of a 17-year prison term he faces for sexual abuse. On August 15, a judge of the Second District Court of ....
August 24 (CDN) — (Compass) - A five-member appeals court in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is expected to rule soon on the fate of an American missionary sentenced last November to 17 years in prison for sexual abuse. Christopher Chavez, 42, was arrested in October 1999 and ....
March 23 (CDN) — (Compass) - Evangelical Christians in Bolivia are hoping a proposed constitutional reform will end religious discrimination in their country. At this point, however, full equality with Roman Catholics in this South American nation of seven million ....
March 23 (CDN) — (Compass) - Big-city lawyers and politicians are fighting a legal battle to reform the Constitution of Bolivia and stop discrimination against religious minorities. However, in rural, isolated villages populated by native Quechua- and ....
December 15 (CDN) — (Compass) - Despite attempts by plaintiffs to use the sexual abuse case against American missionary Christopher Chavez to gain control of the Vinto Center for the Deaf and Mute, it appears the evangelical mission school will survive. The Department ....
December 15 (CDN) — (Compass) - A Bolivian judge has declared an American missionary guilty of sexual abuse, sentencing him on November 28 to 17 years in prison. Defense attorneys are appealing the controversial decision, citing gross legal errors in the proceedings ....
November 17 (CDN) — (Compass) - In October, peasant farmers of the Chapare region violently protested the government’s plan to eradicate the coca plant from their land. The farmers grow 90 percent of the country’s illicit coca, the raw material from which cocaine is ....
November 17 (CDN) — (Compass) - The brother-in-law of an American missionary accused of sexual abuse in Bolivia now risks jail himself for helping defend the man. Plaintiffs have filed charges of \"threats, calumny, slander and defamation\" against Peruvian citizen ....
September 22 (CDN) — (Compass) - Protestant Christians in Bolivia are in a long-running battle to win full religious equality. Bolivia is one of three remaining Latin American countries that \"recognizes and sustains\" the Roman Catholic Church as the state religion. ....
September 22 (CDN) — (Compass) - A 30-year-old man who accused an American missionary of sexually abusing him while he was a student at the center for the profoundly deaf in Bolivia has reversed his testimony, declaring that accusations against Christopher Chavez, the ....
August 18 (CDN) — (Compass) - Christopher Chavez, an American missionary accused of sexually abusing students at a school for the deaf in Bolivia, could spend 10 years in jail if convicted. However, recent evidence in the highly controversial case suggests that his ....
August 18 (CDN) — (Compass) - The case of an American missionary accused of sexually abusing students at a school for the profoundly deaf in Bolivia threatens the future of the evangelical Christian establishment. Christopher Chavez, 41, was arrested in October 1999 ....
