Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa | |
Abbreviation | LNDLR |
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Nickname | Cristeros |
Formation | March 1925 |
Dissolved | c. 1940 |
Purpose | Opposition to anti-clericalism in Mexico |
Headquarters | Mexico |
Membership (1925) | 36,000 |
The National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty (Spanish: Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa – LNDLR) was a Mexican Catholic religious civil rights organization formed in March 1925 that played a crucial role in the Cristero War of 1926 to 1929.[1]