In the Misiones Province of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country, there is found one of the most religiously diverse communities in all of Argentina. And even though there are plenty of Covid-19 vaccines to go around, the religious communities have refused to have anything to do with them.
In Misiones, since the start of the pandemic, worship services have been suspended for less than two months. They reopened in May 12 last year, and although a maximum capacity limit was imposed (today it is 50% of the capacity of each church), this has never prevented churches from having open-air worship services or various radio or television broadcasts.
Health officials recently tried to step up vaccination efforts in some of the rural areas of the province. In an area where only 10% of the population has been vaccinated, a health delegation traveled to that part of the town “and failed to apply more that 100 doses in a radius of 200 kilometers.” The resistance was “very noticeable.” The health delegation was greeted with “demonstrations and insults.” [1]
According to the National Registry of Churches, Misiones, Argentina contains 3,217 creeds. These faiths include Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hinduism, Catholics, Orthodox, Baptists, Mormons, Pentecostals, Adventists, Mennonites, Lutherans, Byzantine Rite, Umbandistsm, Kimbandists and others.
“In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hail-storms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. “The earth mourneth and fadeth away,” “the haughty people … do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” [Isaiah 24:4, 5.]” (Great Controversy, p. 590).
“And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God’s commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity.” (Great Controversy, p. 590).
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[1] http://diario1588.com/2021/08/no-se-inmunizan-por-motivos-religiosos/
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