El Salvador
Salvadoran Archbishop praises government crackdown on gangs
By Associated Press — August 1, 2022
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s gangs, which have been estimated to count some 70,000 members in their ranks, have long controlled swaths of territory and extorted and killed with impunity.
Fueron asesinados por escuadrones de la muerte en El Salvador hace cuatro décadas. Ahora, estos mártires están más cerca de la santidad.
By Alejandra Molina — March 11, 2022
LOS ÁNGELES (RNS) — Mientras que los cuatro mártires están un paso más cerca de la santidad, los salvadoreños en los Estados Unidos esperan que la designación pueda inspirar a la Iglesia Católica a centrarse en los pobres y marginados.
They were killed by death squads in El Salvador four decades ago. Now, these martyrs are closer to sainthood.
By Alejandra Molina — March 11, 2022
(RNS) — As the four martyrs are one step closer to sainthood, Salvadorans in the United States hope the designation could inspire the Catholic Church to center the poor and marginalized.
In Central America, Kamala Harris ignored our best hope: Catholic bishops
By Thomas Reese — June 23, 2021
(RNS) — Vice President Kamala Harris made a huge mistake by not meeting with Catholic bishops during her visit to Central America. The bishops could be the administration’s strongest ally in fighting the corruption, crime and poverty that cause people to flee to the United States.
Catholic groups from Mexico, Central America and US ask bishops for support in helping migrants
By Alejandra Molina — June 18, 2021
(RNS) — ‘This moment requires a whole Church response that is regional, united, and robust,’ the groups said in a June 17 letter.
After another priest is killed in El Salvador, local clergy ask ‘who will be next?’
By Claire Giangravé — August 18, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A Catholic priest was found dead near his car Aug. 7 in El Salvador, the most recent in a pattern of clergy killings in the country over the past 50 years.
Students lobby Congress on DACA and global warming
By Thomas Reese — November 19, 2019
(RNS) — More than 1,500 students descended on Washington, D.C., this week to lobby Congress on global warming and DACA, the program protecting immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives from deportation.
Salvadorans at risk of losing immigration status find support in churches
By Jack Jenkins — January 16, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Churches with large groups of Salvadoran TPS holders are reeling from the decision to end the program that has allowed them to stay since 2001.
Pope tells new cardinals: Be humble, help poor, fight injustice
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 28, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Appointing new cardinals is one of the most significant powers of the papacy, allowing a pontiff to put his stamp on the future of the 1.2 billion-member church.
Eyeing Catholic demographics, and maybe his successor, Pope Francis shakes up his cardinals
By Christopher Lamb — May 25, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) By next month he will have made cardinals in 13 countries who’ve never had them before, including places such as the Pacific island of Tonga, Haiti, and Myanmar.
Pope names five new cardinals, all from outside Italy and the Vatican
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 21, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Pope Francis, making the surprise announcement during his weekly Sunday address (May 21), said the men came from Mali, Spain, Sweden, Laos and El Salvador.
Case of slain Archbishop Romero reopened by judge in El Salvador
By Gerardo Arbaiza — May 19, 2017
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) Romero, then archbishop of San Salvador, was shot dead in 1980 by a right-wing death squad as he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel.
Brother of killed asylum seeker: ‘Tell the judge he told the truth’
By Marie Friedmann Marquardt — March 9, 2017
(RNS) A Lumpkin, Ga., judge denied a man's asylum request. After returning to El Salvador he was shot dead. On behalf of the man's brother, a ministry of hospitality and visitation wrote a letter to the judge.
Salvadoran priest fired over alleged sex with minor
By Reuters — November 26, 2015
Jesus Delgado was the biographer and personal secretary of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was shot by a right-wing death squad while saying Mass in 1980.
Former rebels, devout cheer as Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero beatified
By Reuters — May 26, 2015
A right-wing death squad murdered Romero, a staunch critic of the military government and advocate for peasants and workers' rights, 35 years ago.
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