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idolatry in the Mayan peoples, whom they call pagans (Cant\u00F3n, 1998, Similox 2005, and others).\u000AAlso, the study shows that NPCs are giving a new impulse to the educational process of the country. Although not all churches are involved in this field, the NPCs contribute to the cultural and economic development of the nation with their schools and universities [although they do not directly favour the population that is illiterate and lives mostly in the countryside]. Unfortunately the ESH schools in zones 16, 14, and 11 of Guatemala City, an FCG school and one ICV schools are not affordable to the working and poor classes. The rest of the ICV schools are available to working class people, and the ESH schools in the countryside are available for poor people and indigenous communities. All those churches have the challenge of establishing schools to take care of the low income population or provide scholarship for students of poor families. It will be very difficult for those people to improve their economical situation unless they have access to education. There is a close relationship between education and economic advancement. The NPCs have the opportunity to contribute to overcome the great challenge of illiteracy in the country.\u000AOn the other hand, the idea of enabling leaders for the nation will need to be analyzed later in order to verify if they will favour the development of the majorities, or simply, they will perpetuate the privileges of the middle class and elite of the country. Finally, those schools need to give more attention and space to the discussion and promotion of the rights and values of the indigenous culture. This is true because these communities compose half of the population of the country, and because the extensive populations of the interior are excluded from the socio-economic benefits that the rest of the population enjoys. In a context of ethnic pluralism the NPCs need to take into account the challenges from the indigenous communities in order to contribute to their development and human dignity, especially in the light of criticism made by Evangelical or\u000A337\u000A