Spain’s sentencing of a former Salvadoran colonel for the murder of five Jesuit priests means the truth has surfaced, writes Father Manuel Acosta from San Salvador, but a rotten judicial system still causes pain.
Salvadoran Martyrs
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Spain imprisons ex-colonel for Jesuit priests slain in El Salvador
A court in Spain on Friday sentenced a former Salvadoran colonel to 133 years in prison for the slaying of six Spanish priests in El Salvador more than three decades ago.
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Forty years after killings, Salvadoran city claims Maryknoll Sisters as its own
Almost four decades after their deaths, these women martyrs are remembered, not because of how they died, but as examples of Christian lives well-lived.
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Another priest has been murdered in El Salvador. But there is still reason for hope.
An ambitious computer training program for at-risk youth seeks to be an engine for building a middle class for El Salvador.
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Campaigns to discredit church preceded 1989 Jesuit murders, witness says
In Spain where a trial is being held to determine the guilt for the 1989 deaths of the Salvadoran martyrs, an expert witness has said that the killings were “premeditated” and that there was a widespread campaign to discredit the Catholic church prior to the murders.
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Ex-Salvadoran officer: ‘High command’ gave order to kill Jesuits in ’89
The testimony was offered at the trial of Inocente Orlando Montano, a former colonel in the army of El Salvador, on trial in Spain for the murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter on the campus of a Catholic university in 1989.
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Ex-Salvadoran colonel goes on trial in Spain for 1989 Jesuit murders
A Salvadoran military commander is on trial in Spain for his involvement for the murder of the Salvadoran martyrs at the Jesuit-run Central American University over three decades ago.
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El Salvador marks 43rd anniversary of Jesuit’s martyrdom as beatification looms
People in El Salvador are remembering the martyrdom of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande on his 43rd anniversary and on his expected beatification.
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Is justice still a long-way off for Jesuit martyrs in El Salvador?
The State Department’s sanction raised some hope in El Salvador that the perpetrators of the Jesuit murders and more of the era’s worst offenses would finally have to face survivors and family members of their victims in court. Unfortunately, even such small expectations for justice are already imperiled.
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Salvadoran bishop: Without justice, it’s hard to heal
El Salvador may have signed peace accords in 1992, he said, but there’s a lot of hurt that remains because justice has been elusive.