News El Salvador Religion: In El Salvador, a path to escape gang violence
Remarkably, 40 percent of them come from one tiny country, El Salvador. El Salvador now has the one of the world’s highest homicide rates, as rival gangs fight for territory and clash with the police. ...
News El Salvador Religion: Video looks at religion’s redemptive role on imprisoned gang members
While researching a video project on gangs in El Salvador in 2015, freelance journalist Danny Gold stopped to talk to a guard who told him how a prison group with little to look forward to had found a positive path forward in life -- and it involved religion.
News El Salvador Religion: President Trump Wants to Dramatically Limit People Seeking Asylum in the U.S.
When Gabriela left her home in El Salvador in 2011, she did not know anything about ... for asylum in the U.S., saying that they have been persecuted due to their race, religion, nationality, ...
News El Salvador Religion: Nayib Bukele of Palestinian descent gets sworn in as El Salvador’s president
Nayib Bukele, a businessman and former mayor of Palestinian descent, took office Saturday as president of El Salvador ... God rather than an adherent to a religion, an apparent effort to steer ...
News El Salvador Religion: Pope Francis makes El Salvador’s Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI saints
Francis was responsible for eventually declaring Romero a martyr for his fearless denunciations of the military oppression at the start of El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. In his homily, Francis ...
News El Salvador Religion: Saint Óscar Romero: A hero of the poor and symbol of hope for El Salvador
About the author Claire Moll graduated from the LSE in 2016 with an MSc in Religion in the Contemporary World. She is currently a second-year PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of ...
News El Salvador Religion: More Latinos are becoming Muslims: ‘Islam is not as foreign as you think’
When she was 19 and living in South Florida, Bianca Guerrero became a Muslim, converting from the Christian faith of her parents, immigrants from El Salvador ... to people who wanted to learn about ...
News El Salvador Religion: Nonprofit saves lives through educating others about clean H2O
The Rev. Wilbur “Wil” Howie of Water Valley can’t turn water into wine, but he and the nonprofit he helped organize – Living Waters for the World (LWW) – have spent the past 26 years turning dirty ...
