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Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to US
Read full article: Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to USThe efforts are part of a growing trend in humanitarian aid that has accelerated amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has highlighted the difficulties in getting basic health care to migrants. But the group's goal is not just to care for migrants once they reach the border. It wants to offer health care along the routes migrants take. The group is working to connect migrants to health care and other resources by asking them what they need via WhatsApp. Maria de Jesus Ruiz Carrasco says she would have lost her foot if Global Response Management hadn't stepped in.
Brazil Catholics drawn to worship despite downsized services
Read full article: Brazil Catholics drawn to worship despite downsized servicesPilgrims walk on the shoulder of a highway toward Our Lady of Aparecida Basilica on the outskirts of Aparecida, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. People filed into a snaking line to catch a glimpse of the image of Our Lady of Aparecida; they wore masks, but distancing was negligible. Jhony Gomes, 31, carried a cross over his shoulder on the highway as he drew near to Aparecida. She had driven 2½ hours because she needed thank God for, among other things, sparing her son from COVID-19. Catholic priest Rodrigo Flaibam works in Paulinia, a prosperous city of 100,000 residents in the countryside of São Paulo state.