Religious Freedom

The film "For Greater Glory" hits US theaters this June, 2012. It is the true story of the Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) of 1926 to 1929 - an uprising and counter-revolution against the Mexican government in power at that time. In 3 years of Mexican President Calles’s reign, the total priestly population was reduced to some 350 among Mexico’s 15 million Catholics. Several hundred priests were brought to the Federales’s firing squad, hung from their church towers and thousands of religious leaders were expelled from Mexico to the United States and abroad. Calles’s anticlerical regime was so cruel that is “simply amazing not even many Mexicans know about the Cristeros rebellion.” What happened in Mexico just 86 years ago is an extreme example of what governments can do, and should serve as a powerful reminder of their dangerous potential to wipe out liberty and freedom altogether.