Mexican priest returns to Japan tsunami-hit area

Mexican priest returns to Japan tsunami-hit area

MIYAKO, Japan - Mexican Catholic priest Marco Antonio de la Rosa (L back) holds a mass at a church on April 23, 2011, in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, which was struck by the March 11 devastating tsunami. De la Rosa, who has been residing in Japan for 25 years and was on a break in Mexico when the disaster hit the country, returned to the devastated city to support worshippers despite opposition from his relatives concerned about radiation leaks in Fukushima Prefecture.

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