{"id":903,"date":"2009-01-11T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T02:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2009-01-12T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:04:54","slug":"mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" border=\"0\" alt=\"6836\" \/><\/center><br \/>Two years ago I wrote about CBC&#8217;s article that put <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/world-conflicts-mexico.html\">Mexico as one of the <b>top 5 conflict zones<\/b> in the world<\/a> (the other four were Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan). &nbsp;Sadly, the situation has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are surprised to hear Mexico talked about as a <b>war zone<\/b>. &nbsp;But conflicts in the state of Oaxaca, as well as the war with drug cartels, are not news to the people living here. &nbsp;Little by little, the world is taking notice.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times recently put up a page summarizing <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mexico-drug-war\/#\/its-a-war\">the latest news on the drug war in Mexico<\/a>. &nbsp;Taking a look at the page, you&#8217;ll see it&#8217;s not small news &#8211; <i>since the CBC article was published<\/i>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>6,836<\/b> people have died in drug-related deaths (actually, that&#8217;s only up to November 2008. &nbsp;The number is higher now. &nbsp;And we could also talk about other violence, and kidnappings, not included in this number)<\/li>\n<li><b>45,000<\/b> troops have been deployed<\/li>\n<li><b>5000<\/b> federal police have been deployed<\/li>\n<li>There have been <b>439<\/b> deaths in our state (State of Mexico) alone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t write this so you&#8217;ll fear for our safety &#8211; that&#8217;s in God&#8217;s hands as always. &nbsp;But I <i>do<\/i> want to let you know what people are thinking about here, and this is a <b>big<\/b> one.<\/p>\n<p>Everyday the newspapers bring news of violence, executions, government officials suspected of corruption, kidnappings, and a government trying to deal with it all. &nbsp;Just a few days ago I heard another report &#8211; that the <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCATRE50658E20090107\">three most dangerous countries for journalists<\/a> are &#8211; Iraq, India and <em>Mexico<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Of course we believe that there is Good News that can bring people hope and change lives.&nbsp; That should be your prayer for the millions of Mexico (roughly <b>110,600,000<\/b> people live in Mexico now).<\/p>\n<p>But we also need to pray for peace and justice (1Tim 2:1-4). &nbsp;Though fear can drive people to the Lord, the violence can also hinder the progress of the Gospel (humanly speaking!), and people need to <i>hear<\/i> the Gospel before they can respond (Rom 10:11-17).<\/p>\n<p><b>So as you remember Mexico in 2009, pray that God would bring peace and justice, and that the Gospel would spread as never before.<\/b> &nbsp;Mexico needs your prayers &#8211; <i>Remember Mexico!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/suppliants.blogs.com\/pura_vida\/2008\/12\/co.html\">&iexcl;Pure Vida!<\/a> for the link to the LA Times article.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I wrote about CBC&#8217;s article that put Mexico as one of the top 5 conflict zones in the world (the other four were Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan). &nbsp;Sadly, the situation has not changed. Many people are surprised to hear Mexico talked about as a war zone. &nbsp;But conflicts in the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,18],"tags":[190,191],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-news-and-current-issues","category-prayer-and-praise","tag-drug-war","tag-war","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009) - Finding direction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009) - Finding direction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two years ago I wrote about CBC&#8217;s article that put Mexico as one of the top 5 conflict zones in the world (the other four were Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan). &nbsp;Sadly, the situation has not changed. Many people are surprised to hear Mexico talked about as a war zone. &nbsp;But conflicts in the state [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Finding direction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-01-12T02:31:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-01-12T20:04:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e27f701e051dfb9c158f9637b14f8685\"},\"headline\":\"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009)\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-01-12T02:31:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-01-12T20:04:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\"},\"wordCount\":402,\"commentCount\":2,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/images\\\/6836.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"drug war\",\"war\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Mexico\",\"News and current issues\",\"Prayer and Praise\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\",\"name\":\"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009) - Finding direction\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/images\\\/6836.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-01-12T02:31:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-01-12T20:04:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e27f701e051dfb9c158f9637b14f8685\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/images\\\/6836.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/images\\\/6836.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Finding direction\",\"description\":\"The personal blog of Jim and Shari Cottrill, Canadians living in Mexico.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e27f701e051dfb9c158f9637b14f8685\",\"name\":\"Jim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/36d84585b0d8eabd2c03be43e3103e0b0807c4b8ed5a648aa7225232af05697e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/36d84585b0d8eabd2c03be43e3103e0b0807c4b8ed5a648aa7225232af05697e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/36d84585b0d8eabd2c03be43e3103e0b0807c4b8ed5a648aa7225232af05697e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jim\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/CottrillCompass.com\\\/blog\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cottrillcompass.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/administrator\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009) - Finding direction","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009) - Finding direction","og_description":"Two years ago I wrote about CBC&#8217;s article that put Mexico as one of the top 5 conflict zones in the world (the other four were Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan). &nbsp;Sadly, the situation has not changed. Many people are surprised to hear Mexico talked about as a war zone. &nbsp;But conflicts in the state [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html","og_site_name":"Finding direction","article_published_time":"2009-01-12T02:31:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2009-01-12T20:04:54+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jim","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jim","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html"},"author":{"name":"Jim","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e27f701e051dfb9c158f9637b14f8685"},"headline":"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009)","datePublished":"2009-01-12T02:31:03+00:00","dateModified":"2009-01-12T20:04:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html"},"wordCount":402,"commentCount":2,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg","keywords":["drug war","war"],"articleSection":["Mexico","News and current issues","Prayer and Praise"],"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html","url":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html","name":"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009) - Finding direction","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg","datePublished":"2009-01-12T02:31:03+00:00","dateModified":"2009-01-12T20:04:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e27f701e051dfb9c158f9637b14f8685"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/6836.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/mexico-at-war-pray-for-mexico-in-2009.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mexico at War (pray for Mexico in 2009)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/","name":"Finding direction","description":"The personal blog of Jim and Shari Cottrill, Canadians living in Mexico.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e27f701e051dfb9c158f9637b14f8685","name":"Jim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36d84585b0d8eabd2c03be43e3103e0b0807c4b8ed5a648aa7225232af05697e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36d84585b0d8eabd2c03be43e3103e0b0807c4b8ed5a648aa7225232af05697e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36d84585b0d8eabd2c03be43e3103e0b0807c4b8ed5a648aa7225232af05697e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jim"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/CottrillCompass.com\/blog"],"url":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/author\/administrator"}]}},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}