For some, El Salvador was a shameful episode, in which Washington backed the perpetrators of a death squad bloodbath in a failed attempt to militarily defeat a homegrown leftist insurgency.
Latin America
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Why does it take so long for the Catholic Church to recognize martyrs of justice?
The church is now recognizing what the local church in Central and South America has always known.
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How Colombia finally passed its peace deal ending decades of conflict
After four torturous years of negotiations, a stunning referendum rejection, last-minute compromises and two signing ceremonies, Colombia has ratified a peace deal.
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Celebration, sorrow mingle after death of Fidel Castro
Within half an hour of the Cuban government’s announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami’s Little Havana.
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Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who defied US for 50 years, dies at 90
Castro’s reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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How Haitian-Americans are finding their voice in politics and the church
Haitian expatriates have long considered themselves a “dissed” diaspora—in both their new country and the old.
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How a murdered Maryknoll sister became the subject of a new spiritual and political thriller
‘A Radical Faith’ tells the story of Sister Maura Clarke, one of the churchwomen killed in El Salvador in 1980.
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A Mexican priest that was kidnapped is found alive—but with signs of torture
“This priest will not return the same…He’s going to live in fear, going to live with the effects of this trauma.”
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First interview: Superior General Arturo Sosa, S.J. on his life in the Jesuits
The conversation introduces the new Superior General to Jesuits and the wider Ignatian family around the world.
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News Briefs
Iraqi Christians gathered on Oct. 25 at the Church of our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ainkawa, Turkey, to offer prayers of support for Iraqi forces pressing an offensive against the Islamic State around Mosul. • President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela met privately with Pope Francis an Oct. 24 as the Vatican began a mediation […]