Representatives of the Catholic Church have opened dialogue with gang leaders in El Salvador, which could point to a wider swath of Church leaders willing to support talks than during the previous ...

Deciding whether to make a deal with the devil is always a dilemma born of desperation, and it seems to be the grim choice facing the Central American nation of El Salvador and its Catholic leadership ...

El Salvador's Jan. 22 beatifications of two priests and two lay companions highlight our Salvadoran church's example as a martyrial church. Jesuit Fr. Rutilio Grande, Franciscan Fr. Cosme Spessotto, ...

In El Salvador's capital San Salvador, people drive around with their car windows closed to avoid petty theft. But when they enter neighborhoods controlled by gangs, they keep their car windows open, ...

Priests in El Salvador are reportedly being targeted by extortion rackets, revealing that gangs are diversifying one of their top sources of income to include civil society as well as the private ...

Religious sisters in El Salvador are joining the church's "Yes to life, no to mining" campaign, calling for the restoration of a law against metal mining in El Salvador. "Let's stick together; let's ...

In one of the regions of El Salvador most battered in a bloody war funded by American dollars, four Catholic women from the US were hailed as examples of solidarity, of Christian faith and martyrdom, ...

SAN SALVADOR — When the earth beneath El Salvador snapped like a whip last weekend, entire neighborhoods disappeared, schools and town halls crumbled, and thousands of businesses collapsed. But no ...

A woman fled El Salvador in fear of violence, just months before a deadly series of earthquakes destroyed many Salvadorans’ lives and homes. She settled in Maryland with her husband’s family and ...

MEXICO CITY -- The Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador has abruptly closed its important human rights and legal aid office, which for years, and sometimes at great risk, denounced and investigated ...

The tight-knit community that rallied around Yessenia Ruano continues to feel her absence months after her departure to El Salvador.