More than 400 people packed the chapel of a La Salle Brothers school near downtown Lima for a vigil in support of British Brother Paul McAuley, who has been threatened with expulsion from the country.

During the vigil, Brother Miguel Luna Garcia, La Salle provincial in Peru, said Brother Paul "represents what it means for us to be brothers today - to carry out education ministry in new places, with new challenges ... beyond all kinds of borders, risking safety and willing to sacrifice life in the service of those to whom we have been sent as true instruments of the saving presence of God".