Fernando Cuevas, of the Scalabrinian Missionaries, celebrates Mass at a Catholic church in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on the border with Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Today many deportees to Central America are people who fled gang threats in the first place, and are sometimes hunted down and murdered once back home. Workers have also had to learn how to attend to migrants victimized by gangs — robbery, kidnapping, extortion, sexual assault, murder or disappearance. “The migrant offers us the possibility of once again being a poor, pilgrim, missionary and itinerant church.”___Associated Press writer Sonia Perez D. reported this story in Guatemala City and AP writer Maria Verza reported from Mexico City. AP writers Nicole Winfield at the Vatican, Juan Zamorano in Panama City and Marcos Aleman in San Salvador, El Salvador, contributed to this report.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 04:52 UTC