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- Nhia Neng Vang conducts a soul-calling ritual at his home in St. Paul, Minn. on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. In traditional Hmong spirituality, humans are composed of multiple souls, which may become separated over time. The soul-calling ritual returns them for the new year. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)
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In the US, Hmong 'new year' recalls ancestral spirits while teaching traditions to new generations
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO - Associated Press
Sat,11/25/23-9:34AM , 635 Reads
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ring-shaped shaman bells.
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- The Rev. Gustavo Castillo leads in song and praise members of his congregation at the Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Latinoamericana in Columbia Heights, Minn., on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Even though a sudden change in how the U.S. government processes some green cards is threatening the Colombia-born pastor's ability to stay in the country, his dedication to his mostly migrant flock is undaunted, Castillo said. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
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A green card processing change means US could lose thousands of faith leaders from abroad
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO - Associated Press
Fri,09/29/23-7:02AM , 257 Reads
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — For more than two hours on a Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Gustavo Castillo led the Pentecostal congregation he’s been growing in this Minneapolis suburb through prayer, Scriptures, rousing music and sometimes tearful testimonials.
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- Venezuelan asylum-seeker Luis Lopez speaks with The Associated Press, as his wife, Oriana Marcano, and daughter Amaloha Lopez listen in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. When Lopez was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family's journey to the US
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO - Associated Press
Sun,05/14/23-2:40AM , 584 Reads
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his wife, then seven months pregnant, their two young children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them.
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- Migrants try to stay warm while camping outside the Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Growing numbers of migrants suffer violence that amounts to torture on their journeys. Doctors, social workers, clergy and shelter directors say they’re arriving at the US-Mexican border in desperate need for trauma-informed medical and mental health treatment. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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Migrant shelters try to help traumatized assault survivors
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO - Associated Press
Sat,12/31/22-9:18AM , 191 Reads
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Since he began volunteering two months ago for weekend shifts at a clinic in one of this border city's largest shelters, Dr. Brian Elmore has treated about 100 migrants for respiratory viruses and a handful of more serious emergencies.
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