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According to the Maryknoll Sisters: The [1993] U.N.-sponsored [11] Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador concluded that the abductions were planned in advance and the men responsible had carried out the murders on orders from above. It further stated that the head of the National Guard and two officers assigned to investigate ...
Ita Ford, M.M. (April 23, 1940 – December 2, 1980) was an American Maryknoll Sister who served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and war refugees . On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries — Dorothy Kazel , Maura Clarke and Jean Donovan — by ...
Maura Clarke, MM (January 13, 1931 – December 2, 1980), was an American Maryknoll Sister who served as a missionary in Nicaragua and El Salvador.She worked with the poor and refugees in Central America from 1959 until her murder in 1980.
Dorothy Kazel, OSU (June 30, 1939 – December 2, 1980), was an American Ursuline religious sister and missionary to El Salvador.On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries – Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and laywoman Jean Donovan – by members of the military of El Salvador.
The Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) [1] ... Maryknoll martyr in the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador;
Sister Janice McLaughlin, a Maryknoll Sisters nun who was jailed and later deported by white minority-ruled Rhodesia for exposing human rights abuses, has died. In a life dedicated to social ...
Jean Donovan was born to Patricia and Raymond Donovan, who raised her in an upper middle-class home in Westport, Connecticut.She had an older brother, Michael. [1] She attended Mary Washington College in Virginia (now the University of Mary Washington), [2] and spent a year as an exchange student in Ireland at University College Cork, deepening her Catholic faith through her contact with a ...
El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its mega-jail. The deal was announced after US Secretary of State Marco ...