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In his time, the writer and intellectual Ignacio Ramírez Calzada El Nigromante was hailed as the Voltaire of Mexico for criticizing the earthly, political power of the Roman Catholic Church The assumption of the Mexican presidency (2000–06) by the Roman Catholic politician Vicente Fox raised speculation among liberals intellectuals that Mexican society might lose the secularism of public life.
As Mexico entered the mid-twentieth century, the more violent oppression of earlier in the century had waned but the Church remained severely suppressed. By 1940, it "legally had no corporate existence, no real estate, no schools, no monasteries or convents, no foreign priests, no right to defend itself publicly or in the courts. ...
Mexico has a non-discriminatory policy with regard to the grant of its citizenship. The spouse of a Mexican national would generally not face any problem in acquiring local citizenship. But although quite a few NRIs have married Mexicans, they have retained their Indian citizenship (India doesn't allow dual citizenship).
Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 10-foot-tall (3-meter) aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the ...
STORY: Location: Valle Nuevo, MexicoThis is a Mennonite community in southern Mexicotoiling the land in the name of their Christian faith.Their agricultural prowess was once welcomed here.But now ...
The symbols linked the murals to indigenous Tepoztlán’s patron god: TepoztÄ“catl, experts said. According to local legend, TepoztÄ“catl is an Aztec god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage made ...
Sacrifice was a common theme in the Aztec culture. In the Aztec "Legend of the Five Suns", all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live.Some years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, a body of the Franciscans confronted the remaining Aztec priesthood and demanded, under threat of death, that they desist from this traditional practice.
Recognition of certain rights and the Catholic Church reopens in Mexico by 1929 during the presidency of Emilio Portes Gil, although some anti-clerical government laws remained in place until 1992, when the Mexican government amended the constitution by granting all religious groups legal status, conceding them limited property rights and ...