Twenty-three years ago today, six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter were brutally slaughtered by Salvadoran armed forces, victims of a civil war that raged for a dozen years and claimed 75,000 lives. In....
Nine former Salvadoran soldiers have turned themselves in to face charges that they shot dead six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter during El Salvador's civil war. The soldiers had been indicted in Spain under its universal jurisdiction law; five of the Jesuit priests were Spanish.
Seven Georgetown students and two staff members visited the site in El Salvador where assassins gunned down six Jesuits in 1989 for their opposition to war and support for social justice during spring break in....
