Soon after the quotas, the Cristero War erupted in Mexico. What impact did this have on immigration? Between 1926 and 1929, Catholic partisans took up arms against the Mexican federal government ...

but in the case of the Catholic men and women fighting oppression and injustice of the Mexican government, as outlined in Saints and Sinners of the Cristero War, this last resort was a necessary ...

The Cristero War, an armed conflict in Mexico that lasted ... they were arrested and taken in front of the firing squad. The Mexican archdiocese noted that they gave up their lives “to the ...

Are we on the verge of conflict between church and state? It is history that is suppressed, but it is history that may repeat itself in some form. The Cristero War in Mexico and its ...

The film For Greater Glory presents a distorted version of the Cristero [Christ’s Army] War (1926-1929), a civil war between peasant guerrillas defending the Catholic Church and the Mexican state.

BLAIR: Eventually, Mexican Catholics took up arms ... of history at Catholic University who has studied the Cristero war. YOUNG: People were hung from telegraph wires. There were priests that ...

Uprisings began in earnest and this disorganized conflict was the beginning of the Cristero War. A film about this era has dominated the Mexican box office since it opened April 20, and that film ...

The film, “For Greater Glory,” hits theaters on June 1 and tells a little known chapter of Mexican history — the Cristero War of 1926 to 1929, which pitted an army of devout Catholic rebels ...

The much anticipated movie “Cristiada,” which recounts the story of the Cristero war in Mexico during the ... commercial and moving.” The Mexican actor praised the film’s cinematography ...

The last known surviving soldier of the Cristero War, Juan Daniel Macías Villegas, died last month in his home town of San Julián, Mexico. He was 103 years old. Mexican photojournalist ...

Andy Garcia stars in a historical drama about the little-known Cristero War in the 1920s ... the esteemed hero of the Mexican revolution who is called out of comfortable retirement to take ...