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The FCG senior pastor affirms that in Santiago Atitl\u00E1n, a municipality of Solol\u00E1 in the West, they have managed to integrate together both groups, in spite of the fact that in the past an open separation between them existed. Usually in church, both Catholic and Evangelical, they sit in different places. He emphasizes that in the FCG churches they sit together and no one is rejected. They claim to have attacked racial prejudices as an expression of the body of Christ. This inclusion according to Caballeros is part of the integration of his political party. When asked if there are indigenous people in his political party VIVA he replied: \u2018There is Amelia Coc, who is twenty-five years old, is a graduate in education, a young person with a promising future and Armenio G\u00F3mez is also a candidate\u2019 (Font & Mend\u00E9z El Per\u00EDodico 24 de junio 2007). Of course, the NPCs do not escape the dangers of homogenization in groups according to age, gender or social position. One ICV church divided the congregation in two groups by social strata so that both groups would feel comfortable (A6ICV). In this case, the strategy of numerical growth pushed for functional pragmatism instead of the theological criteria of unity in diversity.\u000AThree of the churches in the study have congregations in indigenous communities within the country. The LDG has fifty churches in communities in the North of the country. The ESH church also has indigenous churches in some departments of the country. This church maintains a close relation with the leadership of churches of Almolonga. The oldest and largest churches among the indigenous people are within the Presbyterian Church, the Central American Mission, the Church the Nazarene, the Methodist Church and the Pentecostal churches affiliated to The Church of God, the Assemblies of God, Calvario church and many independent churches in the West, North and central part of the country. These cases illustrate the fact that the Evangelicals do treat the indigenous peoples differently and that in spite of their own limitations they have respected them and advanced their dignity as human beings.\u000A 225\u000A