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Bob Guerra, a Catholic deacon, holds a crucifix he got to commemorate the visit of Pope Francis to the U.S.-Mexican border at his house in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, April 3, 2022. Guerra takes the crucifix alongside other liturgical items to help clergy celebrate Mass for hundreds of teens held at a shelter on the Army's Fort Bliss base after crossing the border without parents or guardians. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Prayer, worship lift unaccompanied migrant teens in shelters
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Sat,04/16/22-8:00AM , 380 Reads
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — On all but three Sunday afternoons since last Easter, Bob Guerra — a Catholic deacon — has carefully packed his favorite crucifix, a Spanish-language Bible, hundreds of Communion wafers secured in Ziploc bags and other liturgical items into a plastic storage box.
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Migrants rest in a dormitory of the Good Samaritan shelter in Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The vast majority of people staying at the shelter are women and their children from Mexico and Central America who have been expelled under Title 42 authority or were still waiting to try for asylum, according to Pastor Juan Fierro, the shelter’s director. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Migrants hopeful, suspicious at US reopening to asylum
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Thu,03/31/22-12:38PM , 417 Reads
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — More than a dozen migrants excitedly ran out of their dormitory at the Good Samaritan shelter here at the mere mention that the Biden administration may lift a rule that expels people at the border before they can request a chance at humanitarian protection in the United States.
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Members of the "Castellers de Poble Sec" complete their human tower during the Saint Eulàlia fesitivities in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. After two years of canceled or muted celebrations due to the pandemic, this Mediterranean city went all-out to celebrate the feast, or “fest” in the Catalan language, of its patron. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)

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With COVID rules eased, Barcelona embraces festival's return
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Tue,02/15/22-10:11AM , 376 Reads
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Crowds gathered in Barcelona's historic downtown to watch in awe and snap cellphone photos as teams of people in colorful garb formed human towers rising into the air like the spires on the nearby medieval cathedral.
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Church of the Incarnation is shown, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, in Minneapolis, where residents could pick up coats, sweaters and frozen chicken. With attendance dwindling, historic urban churches built in the early to mid-20th century, are fulfilling their faith-based mission to serve their neighbors. Between mass, people can pick up coats and sweaters along with bags of frozen chicken. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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Historic city churches find new life as neighborhood centers
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Sat,01/29/22-10:02AM , 344 Reads
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The pews were rocking at Holy Trinity on a recent Sunday as worshipers from the Minnesota Swahili Christian Congregation sang and danced beneath the lofty, dark-wood-trimmed ceilings and lively stained-glass windows.
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