Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When suspected right-wing commandos backed by the U.S. killed six Jesuit priests in El Salvador last month, international attention was riveted on that war-torn land, which has been buffeted by 10 years of civil conflict and a recent guerilla offensive...
Hollenbach, a Jesuit closely acquainted with Montes and Martin-Baro, issued his remarks at one of dozens of vigils and remembrance ceremonies held in recent weeks at Boston College, Holy Cross, Fairfield University and at Catholic churches around Harvard Square and Central Square...
...interviews this week with officials at Harvard, and in the U.S. and El Salvador, a picture has evolved that links the University to Jesuits Segundo Montes and Ignacio Martin-Baro. The pair, who were highly placed scholars within the embattled Jesuit academy Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas in San Salvador (UCA), worked at promoting their cause within Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and a Harvard-based international scholars program...
...response, Jesuit clergy throughout Central America have issued an ultimatum to the Salvadoran government to bring the killers to justice or else face being held responsible for the deaths. So far those ultimatums have passed quietly...
...they intend to continue," said Rev. Paul C. Kenney, Jesuit press officer for the New England province. "I would say that it is going to be more than business as usual. There has been a challenge to stop the intellectual opposition to the destruction in El Salvador...