Guest Post

"Tell the judge he wasn't lying"

After Moises was killed, his brother asked us to write to the American official who denied his asylum claim.

c. 2017 Religion News Service

(RNS) In the final weeks of 2016, while we frantically prepared to celebrate the holidays, our friend Moises was found murdered on a neighborhood street in San Salvador. Twenty-two bullet holes perforated his young body. When his older brother called from El Salvador to share the devastating news, he made one request.

“Tell the judge he wasn’t lying. Tell the judge he told the truth.”