I know a story of a person who lived in a small village in Colombia and returned from studying abroad.  The local priest asked him to teach English to the parishioners, but the guy declined because he didn't want to be involved with anything with the Church (but didn't say that - he declined politely).

A few days later, he was in a shop, when the shopkeeper told him that there were people outside waiting to kill him when he got out because he had dishonoured the priest.  He slipped out the back and left, never to return.  

This war between right and left in Colombia has been going on for 50 years.