Forced to flee Ecuador for Toronto, a priest built the refuge he once sought

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Not institution. Family. Not institution.” – Father Hernan Astudillo [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 2a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_002a_V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_002a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_002a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] For decades, Father Hernan Astudillo has been bringing people together. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 4a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_004_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_004_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_004_H_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: true mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 1a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_001a_V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_001a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_001a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] The congregation at his church, San Lorenzo, in North York, Ont., is made up almost entirely of immigrants and refugees from across Latin America, from as far south as Chile, stretching north to Mexico. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych 6-7a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_006a_H_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_006a_H_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_007a_H_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_007a_H_lg.jpg caption-2: Father Hernan played the part of Jesus during Holy Week re-enactments in 2019. credit-2: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 8a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_008a_V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_008a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_008a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Parisioners cover up the mural of ‘Migrant Christ’ during Holy Week, 2019. credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] “A lot of these people come here with nothing, nothing,” he says. “They flee war, poverty, corruption.” [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 9a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_009a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_009a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_009_H_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: true mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 16-9 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] They come from different economic classes, different political leanings and even opposing sides of the same conflicts. Father Hernan says what brings them together is pain. [] [] [] :skip ****** ad unit ****** :endskip [.slide] type: ad [] :skip ****** diptych 10-11a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_010a_H_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_010a_H_lg.jpg caption-1: credit-1: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_011a_H_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_011a_H_lg.jpg caption-2: Indigenous dancers perform during 2020’s ceremony naming Father Hernan as monsignor, a papal honour for exceptional service by priests. credit-2: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** standalone text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: text [.text] [.+paragraphs] In some ways, their journey is his journey. In Ecuador, Hernan Astudillo was a student of Liberation Theology, a movement within the Catholic Church that focuses on political liberation of the oppressed. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 12a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_012a_V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_012a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_012a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] In 20th century Latin America, which saw numerous coups, revolutions and genocide, these teachings were seen as subversive. Astudillo’s beliefs also made him a target. Forced to flee, he wound up in Toronto. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych 13-14a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_013a_H_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_013a_H_lg.jpg caption-1: credit-1: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_014a_H_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_014a_H_lg.jpg caption-2: Father Hernan visited parishioners at their homes in the fall of 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. credit-2: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** standalone text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: text [.text] [.+paragraphs] The city is home to Canada’s largest Latino community. But among minority groups in Toronto, it is one of the smallest, at roughly 3.5 per cent of the population.The numbers feel lonelier still when you consider that Latin America is made up of two continents and 33 countries. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 17a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_017a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_017a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_017a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: In 2021, Father Hernan performs a song he wrote about the San Fernando massacre a decade earlier. Seventy-two migrants were killed in Mexico en route to the U.S. border. credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 18a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_018a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_018a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_018a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Father Hernan says he uses the tree outside his bedroom window as a point of focus and inspiration while praying. credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] Despite the shared language, the cultures, traditions and histories are varied and complex. When a family decides to or is forced to migrate to a place like Canada, those differences can either feel amplified because of a lack of community – or they can be the basis for one. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 19a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_035_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_035_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_035_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] In 1999, Astudillo became the first Ordained Latin American Anglican priest in Canada. He took over a small abandoned church in North York with a “For Sale” sign out front. The church told him that he wouldn’t be able to build a congregation there, let alone a Spanish language one. The first year, his masses were attended by as few as 10 people. Now, it is over 1,000. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 20a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_020a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_020a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_020a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Anna Matilde Fuentes, who is known as “Mama Nati” at the parish, has been with the church for 20 years. credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] “We all sat at the front pews, there were so few of us then,” says Anna Matilde Fuentes, a migrant from El Salvador. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 21a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_021a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_021a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_021a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: The Rojas – Lesbia, Kenneth and René – left Nicaragua in the 1980s, seeking asylum. They have been attending San Lorenzo for close to 20 years. credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 22a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_022a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_022a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_022a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Angie Aragon has been coming to San Lorenzo for a year. “I was told he helps migrants navigate the migration system and that the church has a community of migrants,” says Aragon, who is from Colombia. “As a migrant himself, he puts himself in our shoes and helps us find our way.” credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 23a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_023a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_023a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_023a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Daniela Leon was drawn to the spirit of openness of San Lorenzo. “Here, the sacrament is for everyone. The Father doesn’t discriminate – for example, if a couple isn’t married or if they have a child outside of marriage.” credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** ad unit ****** :endskip [.slide] type: ad [] :skip ****** diptych 24-25a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_024a_H_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_024a_H_lg.jpg caption-1: A statue outside the church pays tribute to Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran cleric considered a hero of Liberation Theology. credit-1: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_025a_H_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_025a_H_lg.jpg caption-2: credit-2: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] In addition to ministering, Father Astudillo provides aid through other initiatives, including the non-profit San Lorenzo Community, an offshoot he established in 2004, and the Caravan of Hope, which delivers aid to Latin America in decommissioned ambulances and school buses. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 26a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_026a_V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_026a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_026a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] Astudillo and the community at San Lorenzo also launched CHHA 1610, Canada’s first Spanish language radio station, in 2004. It’s these kinds of grassroots projects that attract non-believers like Daniela Leon. A journalist from Ecuador, she now works at CHHA 1610. “I’m not religious at all. You could say I was opposed to the church, in a sense,” she says. “The church here isn’t like others, it’s of the dirt, with the people in a more real way.” [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych 27-28a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_027a_H_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_027a_H_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_028a_H_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_028a_H_lg.jpg caption-2: credit-2: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] Today San Lorenzo is thriving, not only as a Spanish language church, but as a beacon of community, hope and charity for the Latino community in Toronto. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych 29-30a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_029a_H_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_029a_H_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_030a_H_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_030a_H_lg.jpg caption-2: credit-2: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] “It’s beautiful what Father Hernan has created here,” says Leon. “When I first came, I felt I had found a small piece of home.” [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 36 ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_036_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_036_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_036_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo 31a ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_031a_H_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_031a_H_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_031a_H_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photographer bio ****** :endskip [.slide] type: bio label: About the photographer photo: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/on-guzman/ON_GUZMAN_032a_H_lg.jpg photo-credit: Photo by Hernan Astudillo bio: Yader Guzman is a freelance photographer originally from Nicaragua. Since 2021 Yader has been based between Toronto and Bogotá. [] :skip ****** credits ****** :endskip [.slide] type: credits [.+credits] Photography, story by Yader Guzman Editing by Lisan Jutras Photo editing by Solana Cain Digital presentation by Evan Annett Visuals editing by Liz Sullivan Interactive design and development by Christopher Manza [] [] [] `; !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r