内容摘要：A sticker of a wheelchair-bound soldier holding a rifle is seen on the windshield of Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in combat, during a drive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A sticker of a wheelchair-bound soldier holding a rifle is seen on the windshield of Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in combat, during a drive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Even though Greece is rapidly secularizing like the rest of Europe, the church still plays a crucial role in small, tight-knit communities like Amorgos, with 2,000 inhabitants in its small villages.When Father Spyridon spent his longest period ever away last year – about five months, for surgeries – his eventual return was the talk of the towns. After he resumed his visits to tiny chapels and family-run coffee shops with the help of a gnarled walking stick, old and young alike rushed to greet him.

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, center, talks with islanders after the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, center, talks with islanders after the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, right, Father Antonis and other faithful leave the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, after participating in Divine Liturgy in Amorgos island, Greece, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, right, Father Antonis and other faithful leave the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, after participating in Divine Liturgy in Amorgos island, Greece, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, cooks in the kitchen of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, cooks in the kitchen of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

From left, Constantin Papakonstantinou, an assistant residing at the monastery, Ioanna Kape, Head of the Amorgos Port Authority, and Christian Orthodox monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, as dinner is served at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Sometimes, when the wind is blowing, the acrid smell of the slaughterhouse signals the town’s biggest employer. The meatpacking facility with more than 3,700 workers is owned by JBS, the world’s largest beef producer.

The loss of immigrant labor would be a blow to the industry.“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”

Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from