Prayer Request: Catholic Church Persecuting Bible Believers in Mexico

Chris Pinto starts out his radio show today with a plea for prayer for pastors in Mexico who are being persecuted by the Catholic Church there.  I've transcribed his email below, but you can hear the whole thing and Pinto's comments in the first six minutes of his show at this link:

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_AUSTRALIAN.GUN.BAN_12.19.12.mp3

(the rest of the show is a continuation of his discussion about the gun control movement in the wake of the Connecticut school murders, focusing on the situation in Australia, conclusing with some interesting comments about how the Church has been "disarmed" by the corruptions of the Bible..)

I've got to make this comment for anyone who listens to the radio show.  Pinto describes the evangelizing efforts in Mexico as "compeling" the Catholics to become Bible believers, and I know he doesn't mean that they were in any sense FORCING the people to become Bible believers, but for some reason Pinto uses the word "compel" at times when he really means "convinced" them. 

Here's the email:

"Brother Humberto Gomez just called me.  His Indian preachers from the mountains of Hidalgo have again been imprisoned by the Indian Catholic Church.  They are hanging up their bodies in torturous fashion, like the Inquisition, and threaten to switch to hanging by their necks until dead unless they sign a document recanting their nonCatholic Biblical faith. 

The government rarely intervenes in cases like this, Brother Humberto said.  It's on the news already in Mexico but though they've been imprisoned and tortured no help has arrivdes.  Please pray for for help to arrive quickly.  Please pray for these men of God to be rescued."

Then there is a note added  by Brother Humberto:

" Please keep praying.   they just pulled out all the brethren to the meeting place, all the Christian evangelicals have been beaten and they had the main pastor, Celestino Cruz Hernandez, hanging by his arms and are threatening to hang him by the neck if he continues to refuse to recant his faith. 

All the Catholics have the area surrounded so the rest will not escape and that the authorities will not come near.  The ladies and the children are very scared and they are not allowed to leave the village, and the Catholic leaders do not intervene."