Pastors find a role ministering amid gang crackdown
American Pastor Kenton Moody, left, walks arm in arm with a young man who was in prison for belonging to a gang, during a break on the grounds of the “Vida Libre” or “free life,” rehabilitation center, in Santa Ana, El Salvador, Saturday, April 29. The gang rehabilitation program was founded in El Salvador in 2021 by Moody.
(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — 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...
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