Tag: El Salvador
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...
Salvador’s Blessed Romero canonization probably in Rome in October
WASHINGTON -- During an April 11 homily in Washington, Salvadoran Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas said the canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero will "probably"...