Dust to dust? New Mexicans fight to save old adobe churches

CORDOVA, New Mexico -- Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities like Cordova relied on their own resources to keep the faith going.

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