Family reunited after deportation

Sep 2, 2019 by and

Outgoing Iglesia Menonita Hispana moderator Sandra Montes-Martínez, right, and Suhelen Cázares pray for Gloria Villatoro and her daughter Aileen on July 2 at IMH’s biennial assembly preceding the Mennonite Church USA convention in Kansas City, Mo. — Abraham Ulises Arenas/IMH

Deportation tore their family apart four years ago in Iowa, but now the Mennonite pastoral couple of Max and Gloria Villatoro — along with their three daughters — are reunited in Mexico and discovering how...

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Iowa pastor detained, faces deportation to Honduras

Mar 11, 2015 by and

Central Plains Mennonite Conference executive conference minister David Boshart leads a group delivering more than 25,000 petitions to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office March 10 in Omaha, Neb. — Central Plains Mennonite Conference

Mennonite Church USA officials are requesting support for the Honduran pastor of a Mennonite church in Iowa City facing deportation after being arrested by immigration agents March 3. Max Villatoro, pastor of...

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