A/59/366 promotion and the protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions recalling that freedom of religion or belief was guaranteed by the Constitution and denying the allegations in the communication. The more than 147,000 Lao Christians practised their faith freely, attended the church of their choice and lived in harmony with other religious communities. Mexico 53. On 14 June 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent to the Government of Mexico information according to which more than 80 adults and children belonging to the indigenous Huichol tribe, which had converted to the Christian Gospel faith, were threatened with eviction from their homes in Tenzompa, Jalisco, Mexico. 54. According to the information received, their problems began in 1987, in their ancestral village of Santa Catarina, when this small group began to build a church. Members of the group were allegedly kidnapped and imprisoned. On 24 August 2002, the Christian Gospel families were expelled from Santa Catarina. They sought refuge in Tenzompa, where they continue to live in precarious conditions, awaiting help from the Government. When they did not receive it, they requested the town’s elders to give them land to cultivate and to build permanent homes. However, they were instead ordered to leave. If the Government does not intervene, the 18 families concerned will have to find another place to live, once the school year is over. Mongolia 55. On 16 March 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent to the Government of Mongolia information stating that churches would be denied registration on illegal grounds, or were demanded bribes by local officials. They could also reportedly be fined for not having been registered with the State, even though this is not compulsory under the 1993 law on religion. State registration appears to be a particular problem for indigenous Mongolian Churches. 56. The Special Rapporteur also referred to the allegedly rising social concern about the activities of Christians in the country, said to be based on the belief that they advocated suicide. This had reportedly resulted in initiatives to toughen the law on religion to include a ban on all unregistered religious activities; to making registration subject to ownership of the building used for worship, a minimum of 500 members and sufficient clergy; a ban on religious activity outside a temple or church; denial of registration to a religious organization that belonged to a confession that had been made illegal in any other country, or if it shared the title of an already registered religious organization; and giving local councils the authority to determine the percentage of minority religious organizations (in relation to Buddhist organizations) that would be allowed. Nigeria 57. On 7 May 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent to the Government of Nigeria information stating that, on 2 May 2004, about 630 persons, most of them members of a community of Hausa-speaking Muslims, had been killed as a result of new interreligious violence in the village of Yelwa-Shendam, Plateau State. It was also reported that several houses had been destroyed and two mosques badly damaged in the attack. The attack allegedly followed the killing of almost 100 Christians in 12