Religious persecution is not new much less exclusively done by Catholics, as early Catholic settlers is the U.S. realized (not without some understandable alarm), and these cultural Catholics are acting in accord with modern RC teaching on freedom of religion, or with past historical RC teaching by taking matters into their own hands, rather than making the State doing the work of cleansing the land of “heretics,” but which it seems some traditional RCs seem to long for.
Yet this persecution of evangelical Christians in S. American Catholic strongholds is not new, as a little over a year ago it was reported that at least 70 evangelical Christians in Mexico’s east-central region were homeless Saturday, September 17, after being expelled by local authorities from their village where traditional Catholics reportedly threatened to “crucify or lynch” them. - http://www.bosnewslife.com/18215-mexico-evangelicals-leave-village-after-crucifixion-threats
Note that while the above appeared in the Voice of the Martyrs newsletter, as RCs themselves are persecuted in many places, mainly by Islam and Communists, Voice of the Martyrs also works to provide some assistance to them.
Correction “these cultural Catholics are NOT acting in accord with modern RC teaching..”
Sorry that I read what i intended to say, although the contrast that follows should convey that these are acting contrary to modern teaching.
We are going to see more of this. The Catholic Church has done it before and they will do it again. I know that statement is not going to be popular but the closer we get to the end times the stronger the Catholic Church will get.