Tag: El Salvador
It’s 35th anniversary of Jesuit murders in El Salvador: ‘The memory...
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Marcelo Perdomo didn't think an earthly brush with holiness would take place in his native El Salvador next to the parish...