National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty

National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty
Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa
AbbreviationLNDLR
NicknameCristeros
FormationMarch 1925
Dissolvedc. 1940
PurposeOpposition to anti-clericalism in Mexico
HeadquartersMexico
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]

  1. ^ Werner 2001, p. 147.