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President Receives Evangelical Ambassador December 15 (World Watch Monitor) ? (Compass) ? Three weeks after assuming office, President Carlos Mesa of Bolivia met with evangelical leaders in La Paz, the first official meeting in more than a decade between Bolivian Protestants and their head of state. ?We expressed evangelical support for the democratic process in Bolivia,? said Johan Candelin, Goodwill Ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance, who met with Mesa on November 7. ?The situation is so fragile and difficult, that any support for the democratic process is badly needed.? Congress elevated Mesa, 53, to the presidency on October 17 after his predecessor, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, was forced to resign and leave the country following weeks of unruly protests which left more than 60 people dead. The meeting provided an opportunity for evangelicals to raise an issue close to their hearts: religious liberty. ?The basic understanding during the talks with President Mesa was that religious freedom is an important issue and that evangelicals should have the same religious freedom as all other citizens,? Candelin said. ?It has permitted us to harmonize and adapt our national strategy for the defense of religious liberty within our Biblical principles,? added Bruno Ossio, president of the Evangelical Alliance of Bolivia, who arranged the audience.NOTE TO READERS We've changed our name to World Watch Monitor, and we're building a new website, to replace Compass Direct in early 2013.
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| Source: http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/bolivia/2003/newsarticle_2474.html/
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