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Images are displayed on a screen of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto, top row, and laymen Nelson Rutilio Lemus and Manuel Solórzano, during their beatification Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 22, 2022. (CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters)

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El Salvador welcomes four new martyrs, symbols of Vatican II church

Rhina Guidos|Jan 23, 2022|6 Min Read

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Ronald A. Hicks listens to a speaker Nov. 13, 2018, at the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. As El Salvador gets ready for four beatifications Jan. 22, 2022, Bishop Hicks, who spent time as a missionary in the Central American country, says there's a lot to glean from lives of the four martyrs from the tiny nation. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

World

U.S. bishop with a Salvadoran heart weighs in on historic beatifications

Rhina Guidos|Jan 19, 2022|5 Min Read

Bishop Oswaldo Estéfano Escobar Aguilar of Chalatenango, El Salvador, celebrates Mass on the banks of the Sumpul River May 14, 2021, during the commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the massacre of 600 people. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

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Salvadoran bishops call for respect of rule of law, constitution

Rhina Guidos|Sep 13, 2021|4 Min Read

A painting of St. Oscar Romero and Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande is seen in the rectory of San Jose Church in Aguilares, El Salvador. Four Salvadorans, including a teenage boy, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto, will be beatified in El Salvador Jan. 22, 2022, a Salvadoran bishop has confirmed. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran)

Faith

El Salvador sets date for four beatifications in January

Rhina Guidos|Aug 27, 2021|3 Min Read

Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador, El Salvador, a personal friend of St. Oscar Romero, poses for a photo in 2018. (CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters)

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Why El Salvador’s lone cardinal is warning about its ‘culture of confrontation’

Inés San Martín|Aug 16, 2021|4 Min Read

A prelate wearing a protective mask looks on as Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele takes part in a meeting at the Presidential House in San Salvador May 3, 2021. (CNS photo/Secretaria de Prensa de La Presidencia handout via Reuters)

World

Amid political crisis, Salvadoran bishops call for 'authentic democracy'

Rhina Guidos|May 6, 2021|3 Min Read

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks at a news conference in San Salvador Feb. 28, 2021. (CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters)

World

El Salvador's recent election may test Biden's plan to stem immigration

Rhina Guidos|Mar 5, 2021|6 Min Read

Bishop William Iraheta Rivera of Santiago de Maria, El Salvador, is pictured in a screenshot speaking alongside other Salvadoran bishops during a conference Feb. 9, 2021, about the upcoming legislative elections. (CNS screen grab/Television Catolica El Salvador)

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Salvadoran bishops urge peace and democracy, not violence, before elections

Rhina Guidos|Feb 10, 2021|4 Min Read

Former Salvadoran Col. Inocente Montano was sentenced to more than 133 years in prison for his involvement in the slaying of five Spanish Jesuits in El Salvador in 1989. Spain's supreme court has upheld the sentence. (CNS photo/DPA/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM via Reuters)

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Spain high court upholds conviction of Salvadoran colonel in Jesuit murders

Catholic News Service|Feb 4, 2021|2 Min Read

Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador, El Salvador, is pictured in an Oct. 12, 2018, photo. "The devil is running loose in El Salvador," Cardinal Rosa Chavez said during a homily Feb. 1, 2021. The previous day, two people were killed and others injured during an armed attack at a political rally in San Salvador. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)

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Cardinal says 'devil is running loose' in El Salvador after political killings

Rhina Guidos|Feb 2, 2021|4 Min Read

Father Manuel Acosta, professor of theology at El Salvador's Jose Simeón Cañas Central American University, speaks with seminarians Dec. 14, 2020 in San Ignacio, El Salvador. Father Acosta, as a theologian, was a teacher and later a colleague to three priests who were assassinated in El Salvador within the last three years. He wants civil and church authorities do more to investigate the crimes. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

World

In clergy killings in El Salvador, a priest who knew them asks for justice

Rhina Guidos|Jan 13, 2021|4 Min Read

Bishop William Iraheta of Santiago de Maria, El Salvador, speaks in Chalatenango Nov. 26, 2020, about Father Ricardo Antonio Cortez Martínez, rector of the seminary in his diocese, who was killed execution style in August. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America approved a $60,000 grant request for the St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero seminary in November. Father Cortez wrote the request weeks before his assassination. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

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U.S. bishops' Latin America collection to fund seminary whose rector was killed

Rhina Guidos|Nov 30, 2020|3 Min Read

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