El Salvador
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Families in El Salvador see lives changing with end of TPS in U.S.
By MELISSA VIDA, Catholic News Service
Published January 31, 2018SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS)—Laura Martinez still remembers when her then-14-year-old sister, Cecilia Martinez, left for the United States. “I remember as if it were yesterday,” Laura Martinez told Catholic News Service. “She climbed on a black truck to look for a better future for our family.” Fast forward 22 years: Cecilia Martinez, with the […]
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Blessed Romero ‘another brilliant star’ belonging to church of the Americas
By RHINA GUIDOS, Catholic News Service
Published May 28, 2015SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS)—Some thought this day would never arrive. Others hoped and some always knew it would. On May 23, the Catholic Church beatified Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass, just a day after pleading and ordering soldiers to stop killing innocent […]