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    The CICM first arrived in Guatemala in 1955, establishing missions in rural communities. They struggled to learn indigenous languages to spread the Gospel. In 1966, they opened the Emmaus Centre to provide faith formation and social awareness programs. Three CICM members were martyred in the 1980s during Guatemala's civil war. Today, CICM work among indigenous Maya peoples and in isolated areas of Guatemala City. Guatemala faces issues of malnutrition, violence, and poverty, especially in the highlands. CICM missionaries remain present among marginalized communities, providing outreach like street ministry. Missionhurst continues this work, operating a center providing meals, education, healthcare, and infrastructure support

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    The CICM first arrived in Guatemala in 1955, establishing missions in rural communities. They struggled to learn indigenous languages to spread the Gospel. In 1966, they opened the Emmaus Centre to provide faith formation and social awareness programs. Three CICM members were martyred in the 1980s during Guatemala's civil war. Today, CICM work among indigenous Maya peoples and in isolated areas of Guatemala City. Guatemala faces issues of malnutrition, violence, and poverty, especially in the highlands. CICM missionaries remain present among marginalized communities, providing outreach like street ministry. Missionhurst continues this work, operating a center providing meals, education, healthcare, and infrastructure support

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    The CICM first arrived in Guatemala in 1955, establishing missions in rural communities. They struggled to learn indigenous languages to spread the Gospel. In 1966, they opened the Emmaus Centre to provide faith formation and social awareness programs. Three CICM members were martyred in the 1980s during Guatemala's civil war. Today, CICM work among indigenous Maya peoples and in isolated areas of Guatemala City. Guatemala faces issues of malnutrition, violence, and poverty, especially in the highlands. CICM missionaries remain present among marginalized communities, providing outreach like street ministry. Missionhurst continues this work, operating a center providing meals, education, healthcare, and infrastructure support

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    CICM in Guatemala

    The first CICM missionaries arrived in Guatemala on April 13, 1955 and settled in the
    parishes of Palin, Tiquisate, Puerto San Jose and La Democracia. Gradually more missionaries
    arrived which made it possible that at the end of 1956, the Congregation accepted pastoral
    responsibility for the total Department of Escuintla. In 1958, the presence extended to Las
    Verapaces. Here, the missionaries struggled to learn the Q “eqchi” and the Poqomchi languages
    in order to announce the Gospel to the inhabitants in their own language and encourage them to
    live with pride in their ethnic and cultural identity.

    The Emmaus Centre built in 1966 was done to provide young people and adults, the
    possibility to learn more about faith and of raising their awareness of social issues. Another goal
    was to be a place of dialogue and collaboration for ecclesial renewal.

    The presence in Escuintla culminated with the martyrdom of three CICM members:
    Father Conrado dela Cruz (Filipino), abducted on May 1, 1980; Father Walter Voordeckers
    (Belgian), murdered on May 12, 1980; and Brother Sergio Berten (Belgian), abducted on January
    19, 1982.

    Currently, eight CICM members work in two dioceses of Guatemala: the Archdiocese of
    Guatemala and Diocese of Las Verapaces. The missionary priorities are two: The presence
    among the Maya people and the work in the isolated areas of Guatemala City.
    The people CICM serve in Guatemala

    With the largest population in Central America, approximately 50% of all children under
    5 are chronically malnourished. Currently this is the worst level of malnutrition in the Western
    Hemisphere. Although there have been improvements in Guatemala in health care and education,
    After the most violent conflict of all of Central America lasting 36 years and ending in 1996,
    Guatemala has started to improve such as more access to health care and closure in the primary
    education gender gap. However, other issues such as human and drug trafficking as well as
    violence are prevalent throughout Guatemala. The western highlands of Guatemala are
    particularly difficult and have even higher malnutrition and poverty rates.

    With many neighborhoods suffering from poverty, hunger, marginalization and violence,
    missionaries remain actively present among the marginalized people to evangelize and be
    evangelized by the poorest of society. Although dangerous work, the sisters engage in street
    ministry to truly encounter the Guatemalan people. In urban areas ravaged not just by poverty
    but constant violence, missionaries evangelize by walking alongside the poorest of the poor in
    every conceivable way, sharing the real dangers of their daily life.

    Missionhurst’s Mission

    Missionhurst is actively working in Guatemala to help support those affected by poverty,


    poor health care, gain violence, lack of education, and much more. With many neighborhoods
    suffering from poverty, hunger, marginalization, and violence, CICM missionaries remain
    actively present among the marginalized people to evangelize and be evangelized by the poorest
    of society.

    Currently CICM missionaries are working hard to provide meals to those living in
    extreme poverty, education to the many children who need it, proper medical services to the
    women and infants, and labor and supplies for improvements to the main Bethany Center in
    Cobán. Fr. Maxi, Fr. Thomás, Fr. Felipe, and their teams are working very hard to spread love
    and the word of God to those we are serving in this region.
    Sources:

    https://www.missionhurst.org/where-we-work

    https://www.missionhurst.org/featured-mission-guatemala

    https://englishcicmjpic.wordpress.com/countries/

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