Honduras News

For every Central American migrant who makes it to the U.S. border, countless others are stuck in the purgatory of Mexico City on the long journey north.

Elsa Ramirez already had lost two brothers to violence in this remote Caribbean region when co-workers handling clandestine cocaine flights from South America murdered her husband four months ago.

In this Saturday, July 19, 2014 photo, Elsa Ramirez, 27, deported a day earlier from the United States, stands just inside the doorway of her mother's home, in Tocoa, Honduras.

Elsa Ramirez already had lost two brothers to violence in this remote Caribbean region when co-workers handling clandestine cocaine flights from South America murdered her husband four months ago.

U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline a member of the House Judiciary Committee, yesterday met with the Ambassador of the Republic of El Salvador Fancisco Altschul, Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala Julio LigorrA­a, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Honduras Jorge Milla Reyes to discuss the situation at the southwest border of the United ... (more)

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By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- A Latin America expert for Catholic Relief Services, the head of the bishops' migration committee and the president of a Catholic college in Michigan were among those urging the government toward humanitarian responses to a surge of children and families crossing the U.S. border from Central ... (more)

After her mother was gunned down on a quiet neighborhood street just a block from her elementary school, 7-year-old Sheyli Galvez was turned over to Child Protective Services while a state district judge determined her fate.

The area around Trujillo , Honduras is being promoted as the Banana Coast which is much more marketable than the area just to the east called The Mosquito Coast.

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.