Evo Morales fulfills prophesies of Tupac Katari and the Methodist Church of Bolivia

LA PAZ, Bolivia, January 24, 2006

 For the Methodist Church of Bolivia, which elected the first Aymara bishop in 1978, the Taxi Heathrow Airport election of indigenous coca leader Evo Morales as president of Bolivia is the fulfillment of a prophesy.

Methodist Bishop Carlos Poma told ALC that the presidency of indigenous leader Morales is the fulfillment of the prophesy of Tupac Katari "I will return and I will be millions" and of the Methodist Church "one day what is happening in the Methodist Church will happen in Bolivia." Twenty-seven years ago Pastor Zacarias Mamani was ordained the first Aymara Bishop of his Church.

"I was very excited and I cried," said Bishop Carlos Poma describing what he felt when the first Bolivian indigenous president was sworn in.

Since 1975, the Evangelical Methodist Church of Bolivia has proposed Church unity and the formation of leaders at every level of the Church and community "so that shortly we can be free of all oppressions, exclusions, humiliations, and religious and political exploitation from colonial times to the present," said Bishop Poma.

He said that the faithful is "very happen and thankful to God and the Andean deities for the return of the great Pachakuti," fulfilling the prophesy of the majority election of an Aymara indigenous president.

They tried to exterminate the indigenous and they couldn't, said the religious leader, because we are the axara, a small Andean seed that never dies.

He said that now everything will be a reality, there will be friendships, good manners, work for everyone, happy children, there will be no corruption, no favoritism, no more "come back tomorrow or the next day". The authorities will talk to the people in their native language, as will the president.

"The future of Bolivia is in good hands and we are all committed to constructing a new Bolivia through the Constituent Assembly," he said.

The Methodist Church of Bolivia is more committed than ever and the time has come to restore and dignify human life in the construction of the great Pachakuti, of the Kingdom of God, he said.