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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Y. Mara Teresa Hernndez

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

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The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of “Vida Libre,” or “free life,” a gang rehabilitation program founded in El Salvador by American pastor Kenton Moody in 2021.

The trust that Moody puts in former gang members is not widely shared. Thousands of lives have been destroyed in this Central American country after decades of gang violence.

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