If conditions in Honduras continue to deteriorate, "get ready to receive more migrants," Father Melo told U.S. lawmakers.

Honduran President Hernandez sought and snatched a second term late last year and began that second term under a cloud of illegitimacy and calls for his resignation that have never stopped.

A publication of the Archdiocese of San Salvador argues that the canonization of Oscar Romero should be held in El Salvador.

The end of Temporary Protected Status and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programs means more than 215,000 Salvadorans are now facing a return to a country in turmoil.

El Salvador's bishops asked the pope that the canonization be held in their country so that the poor could attend.

The killing has shaken Catholic Church officials, who say they still do not know what led to the assassination or what it means for the church.

Authorities said Father Walter Vasquez Jimenez was traveling with parishioners March 29 to officiate a Holy Thursday Mass in San Miguel when their car was stopped by an armed group wearing masks. The other passengers were set free after their belongings were taken, but Father Vasquez was abducted, shot and left to die.

Her husband was skeptical but prayed to Blessed Oscar Romero to save his wife.

Though about 30 to 40 were arrested, hundreds showed up to take part in the “Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers.”

"We forget where we came from, not just as the early Christian church, but also as a country."