We are pleased to announce that He Listened to Us: A Maya Witness to Blessed Stanley “Apla’s” Rother is now available in both Spanish and English translation. To order the English translation go to Wipf & Stock and order directly from the publisher, Bookshop.org, or Amazon.com. (Retail bookstores, write to…
The project /
El proyecto
Father Stanley Rother, a missionary priest from Oklahoma, has been declared a martyr for the faith (December 2016) and was beatified by Pope Francis (September 2017). He served and lived with the Tz’utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, from 1968 until his assassination on July 28, 1981. We are seeking…
Video introduction /
Video de introdución
In this 10-minute interview, Juan Ajtzip introduces Blessed Stanley Rother, his identification with the Tz’utujil people, and his pastoral ministry that exemplifies Pope Francis’s insistence that church leaders bear “the smell of the sheep.” En esta entrevista de 10 minutos, Juan Ajtzip introduce al Beato Stanley Francisco Rother, su identificación…
The author /
El autor
Juan Ajtzip was the first Mayan director of La Voz de Atitlán, a radio station founded by the missionary team from Oklahoma. He believes that he himself escaped kidnapping, torture, and death during the period of greatest repression during which Rother died, only because an illness had forced him to…
Editorial consultancy /
Consultoría editorial
An emeritus professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas and a veteran of church-related development work in the 1980s, Gerald Schlabach began renewing his relationship to Guatemala in the year 2000 by leading US students there for classes on the Church in Latin America. Schlabach first met Ajtzip…
Endorsement /
Aval
Forward to book by Cardinal Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. I have read this book by the teacher Juan Ajtzip, a native of the town of Santiago Atitlán here in Guatemala. The protagonists, apart from the author of the book, are the people of Santiago and their martyred…