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January 12, 2016

Salvadoran prelate: Files available to bring justice in Jesuit murders

People participate in the "little lanterns march" at the Central American University in San Salvador during the 2015 commemoration of the 26th anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two women, murdered in November 1989 by a military commando.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - San Salvador Archbishop Jose Escobar Alas said church files on human rights violations committed during the civil war are available to help to find the truth and bring about justice in the killings of six Jesuit priests and two women, murdered in November 1989.

Published in International
March 11, 2015

May 23 outdoor Mass set for beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero

Archbishop Oscar Romero receives a sack of beans from parishioners following Mass outside of the church in San Antonio Los Ranchos in Chalatenango, El Salvador, in 1979. The Italian newspaper, Avvenire, reported today that Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador on May 23, according to the chief promoter of Romero’s sainthood cause, Italian archbishop Vincenzo Paglia.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador May 23, said Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator or chief promoter of the archbishop's sainthood cause.

Published in International
November 16, 2014

Salvadoran division that led to Jesuit massacre still evident

Visitors look at the names of six Jesuits killed during El Salvador’s civil war in the chapel of Central American University in San Salvador. The priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed Nov. 16, 1989.

TORONTO - The memory of six Jesuit scholars, their housekeeper and her daughter should encompass more than the mass murders 25 years ago that sparked international outrage, said Jesuit philosophy student Kevin Kelly. 

Published in International
April 9, 2012

Working to change Latin America's culture of violence against women

Young women take part in a demonstration calling for an end to violence against women in San Salvador last year. El Salvador has the highest homicide rate for females in the world.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - On a Friday in mid-March, Dominican police were called to a three-story hotel that sits off a major highway in a busy neighborhood here.

Inside, they found a grisly crime scene: a woman, strangled to death, and the 37-year-old man who'd killed her hanged dead with the bed sheets.

Published in Features
January 27, 2012

In San Salvador, vets continue long tradition of occupying cathedral

San Salvador's Metropolitan Cathedral

SAN SALVADOR - A group of former guerrillas has spent more than two weeks in San Salvador's Metropolitan Cathedral to demand better economic conditions, continuing a long tradition of the cathedral as a place to expose perceived injustices.

The veterans of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front began their occupation Jan. 12, demanding that President Mauricio Funes meets previously agreed-upon arrangements, such as the inclusion of parents of combatants killed in action into the pension system.

Published in International