PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru – On a Sunday night in early July, four men – two of them indigenous – were brutally murdered in Assis, a tiny Brazilian town on the border with Peru.Far from the two countries’ capital cities, the killings, apparently part of a turf war between a national drug-running gang and a local rival, did not make the national news.But for a local pastoral team, they were an all-too-familiar reminder of the challenges of ministry on the border, some 140 miles from this city where Pope Francis met with nearly 2,000 indigenous people in January.”The border is a
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