> From: lunarii
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:22:01 00200 (CEST)
> Subject: [offshoredestiny] Church Closings in Costa
> Rica more outrageous than first thought!
>
> Well, folks, this is even more outrageous and
> egregious than even I had
> imagined.
>
> They have closed over 80 evangelical churches over
> the past year, and
> the last time even had the gall to invade church
> services!
>
> This is probably a very high percentage of all non
> Catholic churches in
> the country!
>
> And the "zoning violation" they were supposedly
> guilty of in many
> cases?
>
> Are you ready for this one?
>
> NOISE!
>
> I stand FIRM in my assertion that this is a Catholic
> Putsch against
> proetstant churches in Costa Rica, despite the
> pathetic token closing of
> one catholic church these Nazi pigs didn't think of.
>
> These assholes are part of Opus Dei, and we have
> PLENTY of information
> on these people we will be sharing with you in the
> coming days.
>
> So here is the belated, though much fuller story on
> this outrage from
> today's Tico Times:
>
> Unusual One-Man Protest Gets Results
>
> By Katherine Stanley
> Tico Times Staff
> kstanley@ticotimes.net
>
> A careful inspection of noise standards at the
> country's evangelical
> churches, to be conducted by the Public Health
> Ministry, Ombudsman José
> María Echandi and Legislative Assembly member Carlos
> Avendaño, is
> scheduled to begin this week – the result of an
> unusual one-man protest
> Avendaño staged March 18 before the government went
> on a week's vacation
> for Semana Santa (Easter Holy Week).
>
> The congressman expressed his opposition to the
> Health Ministry's
> closures of evangelical churches, not by staging a
> march or a boycott,
> but by setting a ladder beside the National Monument
> near the assembly
> building, climbing atop it, and refusing to come
> down until the ministry
> acceded to his demands.
>
> The National Restoration Party's only legislator and
> his supporters say
> the ministry has unfairly closed evangelical
> churches, which the
> ministry says do not comply with basic health, noise
> and parking
> requirements, throughout the past year.
>
> Supporter Edgar Sánchez told The Tico Times 80
> churches have been closed
> down nationwide since January 2004.
>
> “They are focusing on Christian (non-Catholic)
> churches,” Sánchez said,
> adding the ministry does not uphold such strict
> standards for churches
> of the nation's official Catholic religion or other
> establishments,
> including bars.
>
> The recent closure of a church in the northern San
> José suburb of Tibás,
> by ministry officials who entered the church during
> a service, was the
> final straw that prompted Avendaño's protest,
> Sánchez added.
>
> Avendaño, cheered on by his wife and a small group
> of supporters,
> climbed the statue shortly after 4 p.m. March 18,
> just before the
> assembly closed down for Easter Holy Week. As
> darkness fell, a curious
> crowd gathered. So, too, did a large contingent of
> police officers,
> rescue teams, ambulances and even a crane, for a
> total cost the daily Al
> Día estimated at ¢850,000 ($1,824).
>
> Red Cross workers took Avendaño's blood pressure –
> he suffers from
> hypertension, Sánchez said – and brought him water
> and coffee, with
> Avendaño never letting go of a handmade sign
> reading, “No More Church
> Closings.”
>
> Meanwhile, on the ground, Ombudsman Echandi, who
> told The Tico Times
> Avendaño called him Friday morning to inform him of
> his plan, paced back
> and forth in a crowd of Avendaño's supporters, his
> hands pressed to his
> ears. In one hand, he held a cell phone on which he
> spoke to the
> Vice-Minister of Health, Delia Villalobos; in the
> other, he held a
> walkie-talkie to communicate the progress of the
> negotiations to
> Avendaño.
>
> Onlookers' reactions varied. Many people knelt to
> pray, while others
> simply took in the strange spectacle or cheered
> Avendaño on.
>
> “Bravo, diputado ,” one man yelled. “That's how we
> do it!”
>
> “Don't come down until gas prices get lower!”
> shouted another.
>
> He didn't wait that long. At approximately 9:20
> p.m., Avendaño did come
> down, after the ministry provided a written document
> outlining the
> elements of the agreement that had been reached.
>
> In the agreement, the Health Ministry promised to
> reopen the churches
> that have been closed, and to begin a study of noise
> levels in churches
> that will include Echandi's and Avendaño's
> participation.
>
>
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