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    'Here, We Are United': A Puerto Rico Church Offers Comfort After Hurricane Maria

    A church in Utuado, in Puerto Rico's central mountainous region, is open for a community reeling from the effects of Maria — including deaths from landslides, lack of electricity and blocked roads.
    by Elissa Nadworny Oct 09, 2017 2 minutes
    Ada Reyes holds the hand of her daughter Adamaris Rodriguez.

    Every Sunday since Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, Ada Reyes and her four children have walked half an hour to church. Down a winding road, dodging fallen trees and debris, they walk past cement houses still bearing flood marks, and finally cross the Vivi — a small river in Utuado, a city in the central mountain

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