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by bcadmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
The struggle for justice and love for all people is not over, but the battle must be evangelical and never political, Pope Francis told a group of Catholics from El Salvador.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hurricane Julia, Julia, Mexico, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Authorities in Central America feared the number of dead would increase after the weather system known as Julia left much of the region buried in mud or covered in floods in early October.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hurricane, Mexico, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Authorities in Central America feared the number of dead would increase after the weather system known as Julia left much of the region buried in mud or covered in floods in early October.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, News | 0 |
The archbishop of San Salvador found himself under verbal fire for seeming to back reelection efforts by the Salvadoran president, even though the country’s constitution limits the post to one term.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 8, 2022 | Cardinal Gegorio Rosa Chavez, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, lead, News, Nicaragua, Pope Francis, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Pope Francis so far has not spoken out on Alvarez’s detention. However, sources with knowledge of the issue have told Crux the pontiff’s silence may be due to attempts, so far unsuccessful, to defend him behind the scenes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas, Associated Press, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Gang violence, News | 0 |
The Catholic archbishop of San Salvador said Sunday that most people support a months-long state of emergency that has rounded of tens of thousands of suspects in a crackdown on violent street gangs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez, Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, News | 0 |
Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez blessed a monument commemorating a mass grave underneath it in a remote part of northern El Salvador bordering Honduras.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, News, Obituary, San Salvador | 0 |
Retired Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle was laid to rest May 2 in the crypt of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, El Salvador, close to the resting place of St. Óscar Romero, whom he befriended and advised.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas, Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Gang violence, News | 0 |
12,000 Salvadorans have been detained by the government since March 27, the day legislators approved an emergency law that made detentions in the Central American country easier.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, human rights, News | 0 |
Human rights groups in Washington sounded the alarm after the Salvadoran government began mass arrests and suspended personal freedoms following a record-breaking spree of homicides by gangs in late March.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 29, 2022 | Archbishop Oscar Romero, Archdiocese of New York, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, News, St. Patrick's Cathedral | 0 |
Salvadoran Catholics gathered March 27 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to honor the country’s saint, who defended life and human rights.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Jesuits, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Prosecutors in El Salvador have brought charges against a former president for the murders of six Jesuits in 1989, a crime carried out by soldiers during a brutal civil war in the Central American country.
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