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It’s 35th anniversary of Jesuit murders in El Salvador: ‘The memory...

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El Salvador has ordered a former president to stand trial for the 1989 murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter --...

Clampdown, arrests in El Salvador raises concerns among human-rights advocates

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WASHINGTON — Human rights groups in Washington sounded the alarm after the Salvadoran government began mass arrests and suspended personal freedoms following a record-breaking...

St. Oscar Romero’s sainthood journey helps us see God’s plan of...

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CHALATENANGO, El Salvador — In the church, we often live with drama. We would like the Holy Spirit to guide us from point A...

Former El Salvador President Alfredo Cristiani charged with 1989 murders of...

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MEXICO CITY -- Prosecutors in El Salvador have brought charges against a former president for the murders of six Jesuits in 1989, a crime...

Salvadoran city remembers slain Maryknoll missionaries forty years later with reverence

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CHALATENANGO, El Salvador  -- On a bright and clear January afternoon, Bishop Oswaldo Escobar Aguilar walked into a cemetery and gently dusted off a...

Forty years after martyrdom, El Salvador bishop St. Oscar Romero continues...

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WASHINGTON — In life, El Salvador’s St. Oscar Romero had an open line of communication with the church in the United States, whose leaders...

Salvadoran priest laid to rest; yet another presumed victim of gangs

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WASHINGTON -- Thousands attended the May 20 funeral of a Salvadoran priest found by his parishioners in what some presume is a gang killing. Parishioners...

Blessed Oscar Romero stood up for his beliefs and it led...

VATICAN CITY -- A new documentary about Blessed Oscar Romero, featuring a rare interview with him, revealed the martyred archbishop's thoughts regarding accusations that...

Salvadoran asylum seekers sent out of U.S. are returned by order...

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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Aug. 9 ordered Aug. 9 the immediate return to the U.S. of two Salvadoran asylum seekers, a mother and...

Former sacristan remembers life with Oscar Romero

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Marcelo Perdomo didn't think an earthly brush with holiness would take place in his native El Salvador next to the parish...