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National Edition News cover for September 25, 2014 - Church network offers haven for illegals avoiding deportation: Luis Lopez, 24, center, and his wife, Mayra Canales, 28, left, pray with Norm, right, and Beverly Phillips, second from right, Reverend Erin Tamayo, third from right, and other local members of the faith community at University Presbyterian Church in Tempe, Ariz., on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Lopez who is a Guatemalan native and has been living in Phoenix and Mesa since 2007 and is currently in deportation proceedings is receiving Sanctuary from University Presbyterian Church. Mayra is a legal resident of the U.S. and their two children are U.S. citizens.
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sanctuary: Luis Lopez (center), a Guatemalan in deportation proceedings, and his wife, Mayra Canales (left), pray with the Rev. Erin Tamayo (right) at University Presbyterian Church of Tempe, Arizona. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014 photo, a girl kicks the soccer ball as coach Luis Lopez watches from his wheelchair in the Progreso neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Luis, or Luisito as the trainer is affectionately called, is teaching these boys and girls to play soccer, knowing that the real game for them is to stay alive. Behind on the wall next to the field is a passage in Spanish from Proverbs, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MAY 25 - In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014 photo, a girl kicks the soccer ball as coach Luis Lopez watches from his wheelchair in the Progreso neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Luis, or Luisito as the trainer is affectionately called, is teaching these boys and girls to play soccer, knowing that the real game for them is to stay alive. Behind on the wall next to the field is a passage in Spanish from Proverbs, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MAY 25 - In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014 photo, soccer coach Luis Lopez, or Luisito as the trainer is affectionately called, gets a push from one of his students as he leads a training session in the Progreso neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Lopez, 45, confined to a wheelchair after a bicycle accident more than a decade ago, is working the kids hard every day but Sunday, hoping that the discipline of sport will keep them out of violent street gangs. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
