Honduras News

Tossed into a cell the size of a backyard shed with about 20 other inmates, Butler, who grew up in Doylestown, could barely see where all of his cellmates were sleeping.

Forensic workers, relatives and law enforcement officials stand next to the site where the body of TV reporter Herlyn Espinal was found in in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Monday, July 21, 2014.

The body of a television reporter was found in Honduras on Monday a day after he went missing.

"An estimated 1 million Hondurans reside in the United States, 600,000 of whom are believed to be undocumented," a State Department fact sheet estimated in March 2014, when the scale of the unaccompanied-children crisis was not as widely known.

The wave of Central American child migrants heading to the United States in recent months, feeding a humanitarian crisis there, is showing some signs of abating.

Let's be clear. We are a nation of immigrants. My mother escaped the First World War on a ship from England.

I wrote this on a Sunday, when people who spent the week shouting at busloads of refugee children sit in their churches, praising Jesus for his great mercies.

The immigration debate has recently been given a boost by the images of thousands of young children, some only infants in their mothers' arms, being stalled at the border in the blazing sun with no food, water or anything else.

The first time her aunt in Mexico took her out at night, the young teenager was told they were headed to a party.

At the conclusion of the International Conference on Migration, Childhood and Family, civil society organisations called for migrants to be seen as human beings rather than just statistics in official files.

It's nice to see the United States paying attention to Central America again. Too bad it took tens of thousands of desperate children pouring across the border to attract our interest.

More than 40 Central American children were expelled from the United States on flights to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, as the U.S. government stepped up its deportation of illegal child migrants.

Pastor worries as daughter heads to heart of immigration crisis Faith columnist Norris Burkes' daughter goes teach sixth grade in Marcala, Honduras Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/life/faith/2014/07/18/pastor-worries-daughter-heads-heart-immigration-crisis/12864885/ Next month, I send my firstborn, Sara, into ... (more)

A charter flight carrying 59 women and children has arrived in Honduras from New Mexico, the second group of migrants from the Central American country to be deported from the U.S. this week.

A charter flight carrying 59 women and children has arrived in Honduras from New Mexico, the second group of migrants from the Central American country to be deported from the U.S. this week.

Last Monday, a chartered flight took 38 mothers and children, who had been held in a detention center in Artesia, New Mexico, to San Pedro Sula in Honduras.

Funeral services will be announced later.

An advocate for Central American children told Congress on Thursday that she considers "many" of those children to be refugees when they reach the United States.

Geneva, 18 July 2014 1. Brief description of the emergency and impact The on-going phenomenon of migration of children to the United States and subsequent mass deportation to Honduras that is expected in the coming days has caused a humanitarian emergency that requires the involvement of all organizations with a humanitarian mandate in the country.

Women and their children wait in line to register at the Honduran Center for Returned Migrants after being deported from Mexico, in San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras June 20, 2014.