Overview

• Thousands joined coordinated prayer marches on September 28–29 across at least 20 Chiapas municipalities, following a September 13 call by the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
• Processions featured white-clad participants, banners, masses and Eucharistic services, with organizers framing the actions as a plea to halt what they called genocide in Gaza.
• Activist Mario López Pérez read a statement accusing governments, including Mexico’s, of complicity and demanding a break in relations with Israel and support for a Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
• Reported turnouts included about 10,000 in Frontera Comalapa, roughly 4,000 in San Andrés Larráinzar, around 1,000 in Chenalhó and more than 300 in a San Cristóbal march.
• Crowds in San Cristóbal’s Plaza Catedral chanted pro-Palestinian slogans, and one march honored slain Tsotsil priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, while no governmental response to the demands was reported.