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…

How to help / Cómo ayudar

Sponsorships, donations, and pre-orders will help to subsidize publication in Guatemala by F&G Editores. Our goal is to ensure that the book is accessible to local readers. We invite you to support the Mayan Witness Project through sponsorships, donations, or preorders.