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About 47% of the population of El Salvador identifies as Roman Catholic, and another 38% identify as Protestant. [13] But in the last few years the population of Catholicism has been reduced (USBDHRL). There is a lot of Protestant activity in the country, and El Salvador has one of the highest rates of Protestantism in Latin America. [14]
Villa El Salvador began in 1971 as a squatted pueblo joven (or shanty town) in the vast, empty sand flats to the south of Lima because of the urgent housing needs of immigrant families who had left the sierra of central Peru. A land invasion quickly created a town of 25,000 people. By 2008, it had grown to 350,000 people. [2] Villa El Salvador ...
Independence Day or Fourth of July: 4 July: 1776 Kingdom of Great Britain: United States Declaration of Independence Uruguay: Independence Day: 25 August: 1825 Empire of Brazil: Declaration of independence and union with the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Uzbekistan: Independence Day: 1 September: 1991 Soviet Union Vanuatu ...
The 4th of July (also known as Independence Day) is an American holiday celebrated on July 4th annually. The 4th of July falls on a Sunday this year, which means it will be observed on Monday ...
Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.
Yet the day he was praising was July 2, the day independence was declared by the Second Continental Congress, not July 4. Yes, folks, we Americans are doing it wrong by celebrating Independence ...
July 5, 1924, El Paso Times. The Independence Day celebration here came to an end with a crescendo of noise, a blaze of lights and a fever of enthusiastic holiday spirit that threatening clouds ...
The 1811 Independence Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Independencia de 1811), known in El Salvador as the First Shout of Independence (Primer Grito de Independencia), [1] was the first of a series of revolts in Central America in modern-day El Salvador against Spanish rule and dependency on the Captaincy General of Guatemala.