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Bravin's winning article was a four-part series written during an internship at the Chicago Tribune last summer. The series examined last year's controversy over the training of members of El Salvador's armed forces at Northwestern University...
...City Council vote last night laid the groundwork for Cambridge to adopt a sister city in El Salvador to counteract the damage that they say the American military has done in the Central American country...
...traditionally Roman Catholic region. According to Brazil's Ecumenical News Agency, Latin American Protestants have increased in number from 12 million to 30 million since 1978. Most of them have joined Evangelical and Pentecostal groups rather than such older mainline denominations as the Presbyterians and Methodists. In El Salvador, Protestants claim 800,000 worshipers, more than double the number in 1980; in Costa Rica, they have increased by one-fifth, to 330,000, since...
Catholic leaders are understandably concerned about this. Before Swaggart's San Salvador rallies, Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez warned about the advent of an unnamed "Evangelical preacher given to spectacles." Though most Evangelicals have toned down suggestions of anti-Catholicism, Swaggart's language is more adversarial than that of the bishop. The preacher has insisted that Catholicism is a "false cult" and "not a Christian religion." In Central America, however, he made only soothing references to "our Catholic friends...
While Latin American Catholicism struggles with problems like a serious clergy shortage, the Protestants are amply staffed and funded from the U.S. Swaggart says he has funneled $8 million into El Salvador and Costa Rica alone for welfare and church aid. Says Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, an exponent of liberation theology: "The sects have taken advantage of the weaknesses of the Catholic Church, and the church doesn't know what to do." Asked to explain his impact across Latin America, Swaggart allows, "Problems, persecution, difficulties -- these have always been catalysts that make people seek God. We put hope in people...