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Speaker highlights cartel violence against clergy in Latin America and urges protective measures
Summary
Knox Thames identified attacks on pastors and church workers by criminal groups in Colombia and elsewhere as an emerging threat to religious freedom in the Western Hemisphere and urged restoration of state protection lists and congressional pressure.
Knox Thames told the Helsinki Commission audience that criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere are increasingly targeting religious leaders and church workers, creating a new set of drivers that threaten religious freedom and community safety. He cited recent murders of seven church workers in Colombia by an armed group and said that a domestic…
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