New Tribes Mission
Update on Piaroa/New Tribes Mission Story
Several posts in the blogosphere update last week’s coverage of protests by Indian peoples, including the Piaroa, that the New Tribes Mission (NTM) would be expelled from Venezuela. A blog carried by Salon.com posted a comment by a New Tribes missionary named Matt who was irritated that the blogger did not seem sufficiently informed about […]
Venezuelan Indian Groups Rally for New Tribes Mission
Nearly 3,000 Venezuelan tribal people, including Piaroa representatives, held a large protest march in Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of Amazonas state in southern Venezuela, last Friday. The protestors expressed their opposition to the announcement by President Hugo Chávez that the New Tribes Mission (NTM), an American-based evangelical group, must be expelled from the nation. “This […]
