There was a time when the U. S. government was at war with faithful Christians, just as Fox News would have you believe. But that time isn’t now. It was in the late 1970s and 1980s in El Salvador. This New York Times story about the efforts to deport two of the Salvadoran generals who were responsible for a string of atrocities, coupled with the video below, brings that time back with mournful force.
God bless the martyrs of El Salvador.
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Horrific story that some of us have never forgotten. The video about the murders and the politcal cover-up is painful to watch.
Thanks to Episcopal Café for remembering. It is important that we all remember Maura Clarke M.M., Ita Ford M.M., lay woman Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel O.S.U.. Remember them and all the martyrs of El Salvador on December 2nd.