Christian Missionaries Face Security Issues in Mexico

Christian Missionaries Face Security Challenges After Murders [Excerpts]

Christian missionaries in Mexico, including foreigners, face more security challenges after a married couple who had served for nearly three decades as Baptist church missionaries were killed, Worthy News learned.

Americans John Casias, 76, and Wanda Casias, 67, were found strangled Tuesday, January 31, with electrical cords when one or more intruders broke into their house in Santiago, Nuevo Leon.

Christians said the attacker stole a safe, televisions and mission group vehicles, along with other items. Mexican investigators told reporters that they suspect they knew their attacker because no doors or locks were forced.

Their children said they knew the dangers in the area, where they had worked for some 29 years.

The couple was murdered about one year after another missionary from the American State of Texas was killed in Mexico.

(“Christian Missionaries Face Security Challenges After Murders,” Worthy News.com, February 6, 2012).

[TBC: Nothing’s new, it would seem. Consider Paul’s comments in 2 Corithians 11:24-27: “Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”

Nevertheless, Paul had earlier in 2 Corinthians:4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
See All... referred to “…our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."]