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El Salvador: The Death of Herbert Anaya

October 17, 2008

By Raúl Gutiérrez SAN SALVADOR, Oct 30 (IPS) Rosa Anaya was leaving her home early on her way to school that morning of Oct. 26, 1987 in El Salvador, when she saw her father, a few steps ahead of her, crumple beside his car, hit by six bullets. She remembers a few blurry details:...
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Archbishop Oscar Romero: Lenten Words

October 17, 2008

Archbishop Oscar Romero Let us not think that our dead have gone away from us. Their heaven, their eternal reward, makes them perfect in love; they keep on loving the same causes for which they died. Thus, in El Salvador the force of liberation involves not only those who remain alive, but also all...
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Do We Need a Confessing Church in America?

October 17, 2008

Fr. Joe Nangle, OFM Pax Christi Metro DC, 2008 Some years ago, I found myself in a small pueblo in the highlands of Peru. My visit there took me over the weekend, and the people there asked if I would celebrate the Sunday liturgy. There was no priest in the town, and only very...
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Making the Link Between Iraq and Vietnam

October 17, 2008

Making the Link Between Iraq and Vietnam: Adapting the words of Martin Luther King about Vietnam to the war in Iraq 1) It’s time to break the silence over the war in Iraq and take a stand… We are all responsible for ending the war… The great initiative to begin this war was ours, the...
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