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A student focuses on her lesson at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to catch up on academics and to find emotional support. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Pastor-led shelters bring schooling options to migrant kids
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Mon,04/25/22-7:53AM , 350 Reads
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — His completed geometry exercise in hand and a smile lighting up his eyes above his face mask, Victor Rodas rushed to the teacher as other students were still drawing.

“I’m winning the race!” the 12-year-old exclaimed. “I’m already done, teacher. I beat everyone.”
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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 , 913 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 , 231 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 , 244 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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