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During the eight-day journey that began last Wednesday in Costa Rica and that was to take him to Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Haiti, John Paul was visiting nations torn by insurrection and political change. Each faction on the ideological spectrum would examine his every utterance, hoping to find an endorsement of its political views. But first and foremost John Paul had come as a pastor, offering instruction, strength and solace to his Central American flock of 25 million Roman Catholics...
...past five years, civil strife has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, most of them bystanders in the struggle between left and right. Indeed, the region's conflicts have reaped a grim harvest of martyrs and threatened to rend the church in two in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. For those who were in pain, John Paul brought a message of hope, peace and unity...
...Pope's greatest challenge was El Salvador, where guerrillas have in recent weeks made gains in their struggle against the conservative, U.S.-supported government. While the Pontiff prepared for his pilgrimage of peace, the Reagan Administration caused a political storm at home by arguing intensely that $60 million in additional military aid was needed in El Salvador (see following story...
...other country so embodies the suffering of Central America as El Salvador, whose very name in Spanish invokes the Saviour. Three years of civil war have fragmented the church there into three camps. Some priests support the U.S.-backed regime, others back the leftist insurgents, while the majority are caught somewhere in between. Hoping to bring unity into the Salvadoran church hierarchy, John Paul announced on the eve of his trip that he had appointed acting Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, 59, as the successor to the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who had been ruthlessly shot...
...message he will bring." The government, in response, said that military forces would not shoot unless they were fired upon. But the truce would soon end. Exiled Salvadoran Leader Rubén Zamora said that insurgents had received better weapons and would step up activities once the Pope left El Salvador...