Sitting alone at her dining room table this past Sunday, Doris Aguirre took a bite of a soda cracker and a sip of the orange juice she had prepared to represent the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Eyes closed, she then made the sign of the cross.
It is an act of faith performed every week by millions of Christians who consume a wafer and a sip of wine blessed by a minister in churches around the world, in one of the holiest moments of the Sunday service.
But for Aguirre it is a lonely ritual. Aguirre's church in Chicago moved its Spanish-language service online in late December in anticipation of U.S. President Donald Trump launching the biggest crackdown on illegal immigration in United States history.
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