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underlines that the Areval\u00F3\u2019s literacy campaign was led by a Protestant leader (1998:154). According to Garrard-Burnett \u2018The literacy Campain thus cut across all linguistic and denominational lines. More importantly, it represented the first joint effort ever undertaken by the Guatemalan government and the Protestant missions to improve the lot of the national population, despite decades of political collusion\u2019 (1989b: 136). The promotion of education, participation in some government dependencies and the leadership of some key people supporting the agrarian reform, were the contributions that the Evangelicals made during these revolutionary governments (Garrard-Burnett 1998: 64-78). This period of the history of Protestantism needs to be rescued as more importance is given to the analysis of the governments of R\u00EDos Montt and Serrano El\u00EDas than to the presence of the laity.\u000Ab. Evangelicals in the armed conflict (1960-1985)\u000AThe fact that the Revolution was aborted in 1954 became the hotbed of the armed conflict in Guatemala. After the assassination of Colonel Castillo Armas in 1957, Miguel Yd\u00EDgoras Fuentes was elected in 1958. After Yd\u00EDgoras a series of military juntas governed the country till 1986 with the election of Vinicio Cerezo as the second civilian president during this epoch. A group of people in the army who did not agree with the liberationists who had come to power in 1954, and did not support the use of mercenaries training to invade Cuba, rebelled against the army and started the guerrilla movement in 1960.\u000ALieutenants Marco Antonio Yon Sosa and Luis Turcios were at the head of the first guerrilla fronts in 1964 and 1965 during the government of Yd\u00EDgoras Fuentes (Lujan 1998: 305). Two decades later several guerrilla fronts were organized which joined other groups and became known as the \u2018Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca\u2019 (URNG the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit). Their objective was to reach political power to change social political and economic structures and establish a socialist style of government. The Guatemalan civil war produced approximately 200,000 deaths, 40,000 orphans and from half to one million and a half displaced people (Informe Arzobispado\u000A48\u000A