"Asserting that Law 351 is unconstitutional, the National Association of Evangelicals of Bolivia (ANDEB) will file suit before the Plurinational Legislative Assembly demanding that it be revoked; Christian leaders argue its re-registration requirements restrict the “rights and religious freedoms of churches.”
Churches failing to complete the re-registration within a two-year period would lose their legal right to exist. The ANDEB suit charges that Law 351 aims to “control” churches and “impose contrary beliefs” upon the Christian faith and “denies us the right to be a church.”
ANDEB organized protest marches by an estimated 20,000 people on August 17 in five cities throughout the country to state their opposition to the policies of President Evo Morales’s administration.
“They want to control the activities of the evangelical churches,” AgustÃn Aguilera, president of ANDEB, told the Santa Cruz newspaper El Deber. “Article 15 (of the law) would force all religious organizations to carry out our activities within the parameters of the ‘horizon of good living,’ which is based on the [ethnic] Aymara worldview. This is an imposition of a cultural and spiritual worldview totally foreign to ours.”" AdventistReview
.....and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Churches failing to complete the re-registration within a two-year period would lose their legal right to exist. The ANDEB suit charges that Law 351 aims to “control” churches and “impose contrary beliefs” upon the Christian faith and “denies us the right to be a church.”ANDEB organized protest marches by an estimated 20,000 people on August 17 in five cities throughout the country to state their opposition to the policies of President Evo Morales’s administration.
“They want to control the activities of the evangelical churches,” AgustÃn Aguilera, president of ANDEB, told the Santa Cruz newspaper El Deber. “Article 15 (of the law) would force all religious organizations to carry out our activities within the parameters of the ‘horizon of good living,’ which is based on the [ethnic] Aymara worldview. This is an imposition of a cultural and spiritual worldview totally foreign to ours.”" AdventistReview
.....and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:17
