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During the Salvadoran Civil War, on 16 November 1989, Salvadoran Army soldiers killed six Jesuits and two women, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at their residence on the campus of Central American University (known as UCA El Salvador) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Polaroid photos of the Jesuits' bullet-riddled bodies were on display in the ...
A former Salvadoran colonel was sentenced to 133 years in prison for the killings of five Jesuit priests more than three decades ago, a court in Spain ruled Friday. Spain’s National Court in ...
"It really takes a lot in a Catholic country to kill a priest," Terry Lynn Karl said. "You have to turn your enemies into subhumans—this is what the top commanders did." A 1989 massacre against ...
In 2022, two Jesuit priests were killed inside a church in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico. In 2016, three priests were killed in just one week in Mexico. Why Harris is going to ...
Around 40 Poles were murdered in the Jesuit monastery on Rakowiecka Street on 2 August 1944. Among them were eight priests and eight religious brothers of the Society of Jesus, [b] at least eight women and a 10-year-old altar boy. [9] [10] Polish historians were able to identify 32 victims of the massacre. [9]
John Ogilvie (1579–1615), Scottish Jesuit martyr during reign of James VI. Alfonso Rodríguez Olmedo (1598-1628), Spanish missionary to Paraguay. Nicholas Owen (c. 1550–1606), built priest holes in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
The Martyrs of Natal were a group of 30 Roman Catholic people of Colonial Brazil – two of them priests – killed in the northern part of the colony in massacres that a large group of Dutch Calvinists led. [2] One priest was a Colonial Brazilian Jesuit missionary, while the other priest was an
Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch ...