The anti-Catholic persecutions in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s are long forgotten, it seems. The reality is hard to believe. Just a generation ago, not far from our borders, thousands of men, women ...

WEST JORDAN — Representatives of the Utah Knights of Columbus have tried for 20 years to arrange a viewing of the relics of six Catholic priests killed during Mexico's Cristeros War, a crackdown by ...

On the morning of June 2, 1929, a detachment of federales gunned down a middle-aged former army general outside a hacienda chapel in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Enrique Gorostieta was the commander ...

In the years 1926 through 1929, Mexico fought a war over the freedom of Roman Catholics to worship. After the Mexican Revolution, the constitution of 1917 stripped great power from the church, along ...

“For Greater Glory” is a meandering, malnourished epic of a forgotten Mexican civil war, the one “after” the Mexican Revolution that made Pancho Villa famous. This period piece, partly financed by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mexican Martyrs Relics from Mexico's Cristeros War, honoring six priests killed in the conflict, will be on display at St.

Representatives of the Utah Knights of Columbus have tried for 20 years to arrange a viewing of the relics of six Catholic priests killed during Mexico’s Cristeros War, a crackdown by the Mexican ...